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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge