Since we're linking docs, you might also check out:<div><a href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html">http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Which is the kickstart chapter of the RHEL5 install guide.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You want to look at grub kickstart:<br>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/</a><br>
<br>
This let's you take an existing unsatisfactory install, edit some<br>
stuff in grub.conf, add some boot up stuff and reboot and go to a vnc<br>
installer connecting to your image server of choice to do a new<br>
installation.<br>
<br>
Note: this is NOT a trivial thing. Mistakes create a dead box that<br>
must be reimaged so make it work first on a machine you can reboot<br>
yourself :-)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Richard Bronosky <<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Okay, I'm pretty impressed with the level of expertise I've seen. I<br>
> figure I might as well try this pipe dream out on y'all.<br>
><br>
> I have a bunch of servers hosted with Peer1 "Managed*" Hosting. They<br>
> do not give console access, so installing my own OS, setting up LVM,<br>
> etc. requires that I pay them to do it for me. Once I have them<br>
> install said OS, I have full control over it, but only via SSH - no<br>
> console. It sounds to me like, as I add servers I ought to be able to<br>
> take their bulky default LAMP stack they give for free. Drop a few<br>
> things in carefully chosen places. Reboot. Ideally, I'd like the<br>
> install process to start sshd very early so that I can handle<br>
> exceptions or install interactively. I [loosely] understand the<br>
> kickstart concept, but since this is a server that I have no physical<br>
> access to, I'd like SSH access early.<br>
><br>
> Is this doable?<br>
><br>
> * Managed = They try to reboot my server whenever they don't<br>
> understand what I'm doing (Xen) with it.<br>
><br>
> .!# RichardBronosky #!.<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>