On Wednesday 25 May 2005 6:25 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:32 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:32 +0100, Stephen Carter wrote:
Actually I became a little more interested in this so I did a quick search, and found this article on Novell's webiste about headless installs using VNC. The crux is you need to have a network environment setup in the remote location to support this type of installation which needs a copy of the installation source, a tftp and dhcp server, and the server itself prepared for PXE boot. Sorry if it's already been mentioned, I only joined the list recently.
This is great but still requires some user interaction. An IP based KVM would eliminate user intervention and allow bios access during the boot process.
Also check chapter 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 in the 9.3 adminguide. There are instructions for using VNC in the install process, but this still requires some human intervention at the server being installed.
Thanks to Ken, Stephen and Jerry for the useful pointers. I'm probably worrying needlessly here and the install will go fine using VNC. The only humans on the other side will be IT guys that are 100% windows oriented, but I should be able to get them to mount the DVD and type the neccessary commands to get me going with a VNC install. I was hoping not to have to involve them, don't want to give them any reasons to dislike Linux and certainly don't want my incompetence on display if there are problems with the install <g>. It's a few months away, but I'll report back on my success or failure. Thanks again! Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64