[WBEL-users] remote install? switch to debian?

[Steve Anderson]

A few questions:

Does the server have a keyboard and monitor attached?
Does it have a CD drive?
Do you have a dhcp server?

I'll assume yes to all three for now.


Then all you should need to do is:

Boot the server with disk 1
When it prompts you for what you want to do type :
linux vnc

Find out what ip address it's been assigned by the dhcp server.

Vnc to that.

( you might need to also add vncpassword=password on the linux line. I'm not
sure)


Steve Anderson

-----Original Message-----
From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org]
On Behalf Of gregwm
Sent: 28 July 2004 16:11
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] remote install? switch to debian?

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 08:51, Steve Anderson wrote:
> If your boxes can handle PXE, then whitebox is great for remote installs.
> 
> It's a little finicky to set up, but one you have, you can script the 
> install so you can have a box set up within half an hour, and that's 
> not time you have to do anything in. Switch on, select the install 
> option, walk away.

i'd appreciate further pointers here.  i don't want kickstart.  i just want
vnc control, with no need for intervention at a machine far away. 
iiuc that means i need to do a hard disk install via vnc.  i don't see that
anaconda can do that.  if i'm wrong, or if another installer can do this,
i'd love to know.

-g
--
gregory whitley mott
it coordinator
nonviolentpeaceforce.org

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