Rik Herrin wrote: > I have read that you can install RHEL on a machine and > view the graphical installer on a different machine > using vnc. However, I have failed to really find any > information about how I would go about doing so. Does > anyone know how this can be done? Thanks for your > time. i found the following while searching ""The RHEL-3 installer now supports graphical installation via VNC. After configuring enough network information for the system to get an IP and mount an NFS share, the VNC server starts up. Then I can simply fire up a VNC client, connect to the system, and see both the graphical install screen and the serial console window (pretty dull once the GUI installer starts up), and install graphically just like normal. There's also support for connecting to a remote X server, but I haven't tried that yet."" Following is copied from "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Release Notes (x86 Edition)" Installation via VNC is now supported. To initiate a VNC-based installation, pass vnc as a boot-time option. If necessary, a password can be set by adding "vncpassword=<password>" to the boot-time options. The VNC display will be "<host>:1", where <host> is the hostname or IP address of the system installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is also possible for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program to initiate a connection to a listening VNC client. This is done by using the vncconnect boot-time option: linux vnc vncconnect=<client>[:<port>] (Where <client> is the hostname or IP address of the system running the listening VNC client, and <port> is an optional port specification that may be specified if the VNC client is not listening on port 5500, which the default port for this type of connection). The following examples show the how the boot-time option is specified for standard and non-standard ports: linux vnc vncconnect=pigdog.example.com linux vnc vncconnect=pigdog.example.com:27910 The system that is to run the listening VNC client must then launch the appropriate software to run the VNC client in its listening mode. For the VNC client supplied with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, the following command is sufficient: vncviewer -listen In addition, a new kickstart directive has been added to support VNC-based installations: vnc [--password <password>] [--connect <host>[:<port>]] (Where --password <password> is an optional parameter for specifying a VNC password, and [--connect <host>[:<port>]] is an optional parameter for specifying the host (and optionally, port) of a system running a listening VNC client. NOTE: If you specify any of the VNC-related boot-time options, they will override the corresponding options present in the kickstart file. Regards, Peeyush Maurya http://www.linux-faqs.com/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
