Wishlist: remote install GUI

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 20:42, Brent wrote:
> Is there a good document somewhere that talks about how to do this?  I
> have some machines that have fedora on them and I don't have CD-Drives
> for them or anything and this seems like the best option, but I have
> never seen the best way to accomplish this.

I don't know if there is a document, I just sorted it out one day when I had 
the itch.

Grub can boot kernels and initrds right?  And you can pass arguments to it 
right?  The CD has kernel and initrd files designed for network booting over 
PXE, these are suitable to get a box up and on the network to start an 
install.  Copy the kernel and initrd image from the images/pxe/ directory on 
the CD or on the install tree to your /boot.  Edit group and make a reference 
to these.  As for arguments, you can put anything here that you normally 
would type at the CD prompt, such as vnc, askmethod, text, kickstart, method, 
etc...  Reboot to this image and away you go.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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