you need the reboot directive in the ks.cfg On 7/31/05, Rik Herrin <rikherrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > Thanks a lot. I was able to pull it off although > I've only been trying it locally before trying it > remotely. The only problem so far is that it gives me > a message: > Complete > Congradulations, your Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES > installation is complete. > ... > ... > Press <Enter> to reboot your system. > > Is there any way to make it skip this screen and > automatically reboot the system? Thanks for your > time. > > > From: Eris <eris-redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: Is this possible using Kickstart? > > > On Friday 29 July 2005 02:21 pm, Rik Herrin wrote: > > > I want to put the Red Hat EL isos on a partition > and > > configure grub to automatically start a kickstart > > installation. > ... > > The server is on a remote machine which I only have > ssh > > access to. > > >What you need can be done, but it is tricky because > everything has to go exactly right or else you will be > paying your hosting company to restore your hard > drive. I've only done this once and I was doing it on > my home LAN only as practice in case I ever needed to > do it for real. It took me several tries to get it > right, so if you can practice on a local LAN first > where you have physical access, that would be good. > > > >WARNING! If you can get your hosting provider to do > this for you, then pay > >them to do it! It's much easier to install the OS if > you have physical access. If they won't do it, try to > find someone who has experience doing remote installs > and pay that person - and make sure they will cover > any fees to your hosting provider if something goes > wrong. > > > >Essentially, all you need to do is add the kickstart > file to the installation floppy disk image and modify > the installation disks startup script to use it. Then > write that disk image to an empty partition on the > existing server. I disabled the existing swap > partition and used it. It doesn't matter that the > partition is bigger than the floppy image; once the > new system is running, you can just reinitialize it as > a swap partition. > > > >Once the disk image is loaded on the hard drive, add > it into the grub configuration and set it as the > default. > > > >Then reboot. > > > >And hope that you did everything right, because you > will not be able to see any error messages during the > installation. It either works and the system reboots > on it's own, or it fails and you have to get the drive > restored and you start over. > > > >When I did this I was installing RedHat Linux 8, so > things may be very different now. I make no guarantee > that it is still possible, but I have no > >reason to think it isn't. > > > >But it really is not easy to do a remote install like > this, and the chance of messing up the system is quite > high, so again, I urge you to try to find another way, > and if you must resort to this hack then practice it > on a spare machine at home first until you can get it > to work. > > > >Another note: I had to configure the kickstart file > so that it would skip X configuration, but unless you > will need VNC access, you can probably just not bother > to install X at all. > > >Eris Caffee > > Rik Herrin > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Best Regards, Leslie Joshua Wang +============================================================+ "I believe there's a hero in everyone of us, give us strength, make us noble, even though sometimes, we have to give up the things we want the most." +============================================================+ "The good thing about standard, there are so many of them to chose from ..." availability, performance and cost - pick 2 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
