On 8/31/06, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 17:50 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 8/30/06, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 8/30/06, Steven Pritchard <steve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > A thought came up on IRC earlier that I thought I should record > > > somewhere: > > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StevenPritchard/InstallConsole > > > > > > To summarize, back in the late 90s when I was an HP-UX admin, I > > > thought that one of the nicer tools HP made was something called > > > Ignite-UX. It was a GUI that could be used to remotely start an > > > install of HP-UX. On several occasions, I used to it completely > > > reinstall dozens of HP-UX workstations all at once. > > > > > > I think something similar for Fedora would be Really Cool, and I'm > > > convinced it would be fairly easy to implement by someone who knew > > > anaconda much, much better than I do. :-) > > > > VNC won't do? > > > is there a doc up on how to remtoe install via vnc? I would like to > give this a try on my test machine come FC6 As Mike also realized, VNC isn't exactly the same thing, in that you can't *initiate* the install remotely. But if you have a boot CD/DVD, like Jesse said, you can do the install mostly as a remote operation. The Installation Guide has had this information for some time; see Appendix A: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-remoteaccess-installation.html That's for FC5, but the information won't change much, if at all, for FC6.
Along the path of alternate install methods ... how feasible is it to say PXE book a remtoe machine, then have the install process start on it somehow. I am not familiar with the require technologies, but they seem to already exist. Would be nice if Fedora could pioneer (assuming ti doesn't alreayd exist) the ability to put a Disk 1 into machine X, have machine X boot to Disk 1, then have machine Y switch on and PXE boot, pulling the necessary info from machine X and have an monitor the installtion of machine Y from machine X via VNC (NX would be nice). If I could afford I would open up a bounty on that. Peace. -- To be updated... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
