Hi, I did my first FC vnc-install with http yesterday. Booted the target machine from floppies (unable to boot from cd) and started the installation. It is a lot nicer to sit on your own office watching installation to proceed than freeze in the local machine room. Great! It would even be nicer if the "first-boot" would not run or would run vnc-enabled when the installation was vnc-based. There is absolutely nothing in that "first-boot" thing that you could not do remotely or would not wish to do remotely when installing a server. If I recall right (I was in the machine room when the machine had first-booted so I didn't check) the first-boot is run before the network comes up so you can not even remotely kill the beast nor even access the machine until that dialogue is completed. This quite effectively makes it less appealing to use vnc installs. Unfortunately why I did this kind of install was mainly to practise doing the same with RHEL 3.0 AS and ES. Sadly this installation method doesn't seem to be available for RHEL 3 AS or ES. The boot.iso doesn't support graphical install with http which shuts vnc install out. This bugs me greatly as I have two machines in the machine room across the town in a "cave". In a cave where I have so far avoided acquiring "stage pass" and thus becoming one of those miserably sods who actually might be called in the middle of the night to fix things up. Almost nobody here believes me when I claim that I know absolutely nothing about Windows machines and therefore it pays to be insured by without having physical access to the windows server pit. It would have been nice to give cds and written instructions how to start the installation process to the windows administrators and do the install with vnc over ssh-tunnel from home this weekend. Windows admins have to go over there anyway now and then to administer their pets with "cds of confidence" to keep everything running smoothly. I don't know if it would be possible to make a modified boot.iso and http-installation tree by mixing things from FC 1 and RHEL AS 3 to get a vnc-http-based installation for RHEL AS and ES but I'm really tempted to try to do that... Regards, -- Mauri "mos" Sahlberg Pretax Systems Oy +358 207 44 2228 Technology Evangelist Pääskylänrinne 8 +358 207 44 2201 Bsc Computer Science FIN-00500 Helsinki www.pretax.net Development Manager Finland
