On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:33:21 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 00:23, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> I have a Redhat Enterprise 3 AS install to do tonight. The machine isn't >> located in one of the buildings where I have an office, so sitting there >> waiting for it to finish installing would be a pain. I'd prefer it if I >> could walk over, start up the install, and walk back to my relatively cozy >> office. :) >> >> I've been experimenting with VNC as a way of doing installs. It seems to >> work great, but I've been doing it by popping in the first cdrom, >> launching a VNC install, and then doing things remotely. The problem is, >> that after the install is done, that cdrom is still in the cd drive, so >> the reboot after the install comes back up off of the install cdrom. >> >> Is there some way of ejecting the cdrom in such a way that it won't be >> reloaded, via VNC, or something like that? > Are you installing from a network resource like NFS, ftp, http, or even a > local Hard Disk? (I would assume so, as you won't be there to swap CDs). > Is that's the case, once the install has begun (ie, you are past the "running > anaconda..." message, you should be able to physically eject the CD at that > point as it is no longer playing an active part in the process... Yes, this worked well for me last night - except that upon first reboot, the machine came up with a firewall that was blocking everything, including ssh. But other than that, this is a great way to do it. And yes, you assumed correctly: we usually do our installs over NFS. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
