[ale] Headless, Consoleless, DVDless, NetInstall? was: Fedora NetInstall via USB Drive

[scott mcbrien]

Since we're linking docs, you might also check out:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html

Which is the kickstart chapter of the RHEL5 install guide.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> You want to look at grub kickstart:
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/
>
> This let's you take an existing unsatisfactory install, edit some
> stuff in grub.conf, add some boot up stuff and reboot and go to a vnc
> installer connecting to your image server of choice to do a new
> installation.
>
> Note: this is NOT a trivial thing. Mistakes create a dead box that
> must be reimaged so make it work first on a machine you can reboot
> yourself :-)
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>
> wrote:
> > Okay, I'm pretty impressed with the level of expertise I've seen. I
> > figure I might as well try this pipe dream out on y'all.
> >
> > I have a bunch of servers hosted with Peer1 "Managed*" Hosting. They
> > do not give console access, so installing my own OS, setting up LVM,
> > etc. requires that I pay them to do it for me. Once I have them
> > install said OS, I have full control over it, but only via SSH - no
> > console. It sounds to me like, as I add servers I ought to be able to
> > take their bulky default LAMP stack they give for free. Drop a few
> > things in carefully chosen places. Reboot. Ideally, I'd like the
> > install process to start sshd very early so that I can handle
> > exceptions or install interactively. I [loosely] understand the
> > kickstart concept, but since this is a server that I have no physical
> > access to, I'd like SSH access early.
> >
> > Is this doable?
> >
> > * Managed = They try to reboot my server whenever they don't
> > understand what I'm doing (Xen) with it.
> >
> > .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>
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