Automated kickstart of remote machine
James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov
James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov
Mon Jun 13 13:36:53 UTC 2005
Call me crazy, but this sounds like an awfully big hassle to get working..
And if it breaks, it's going to be a pain. Since this is only one
machine, why use kickstart at all? Why not use the VNC option that lets
you drive the upgrade/installation remotely?
James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394
kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 06/10/2005 10:23:11 PM:
> Hello, all -
>
> I've set up a small lab in VMWare to experiment with upgrading an older
> machine. I'd like to come up with a process to completely re-install
> RHEL4 on the machine. I'm trying to pull all this off in a little lab
> before I go for the big money - a server that is about 1200 miles away
> from me.
>
> I'm able to do a kickstart install off of a CD, or a disk - that's cake.
> However, I don't know much about doing a kickstart on a remote machine,
> a machine I will have no physical access to. All I can do (and
> hopefully after the kickstart will still be able to) is SSH to the
> machine as it stands.
>
> I guess what I'm asking here is what are my options in an effort to
> kickstart this machine remotely? Is there a process which I can hack at
> grub a little bit to load some additional kickstart paramaters next time
> it boots, and at that time, it would begin the kickstart? Is that how
> it's done in this situation?
>
> Thanks again for the time
> -dant
>
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