no stephen.. i don't just need a kvm.... to look at the remote monitor... i have a system with no cd drive... i need a way of installing FC3. i can copy the isos to the system harddrive, and then what? i wanted to be able to do this whole thing somewhat remotely, walking through the Fedora/Anaconda install process.... for now, i'd settle with being able to stick a boot floppy in, and somehoe pointing to the iso dirs and starting the Fedora/Anaconda process that way.. although this would mean i'd have to be at the server... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Seremeth, Stephen [mailto:SSeremeth@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:59 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: trying to setup for a remote installation > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bruce > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:05 PM > To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'; 'Philip Rowlands' > Subject: RE: trying to setup for a remote installation > > phill.... > > thanks for the followup/being patient... initially, i'd like > to be able to > walk through the entire process from a remote system. thus > the need for/use > of vnc. > > i was hoping that i could somehow reboot the remote server, > and have vnc pop > up on my server/vnc window, allowing me to select the various > attributes of > the remote Fedora install on the remote machine... > > this would allow me to be able to do a manual remote install > of Fedora, > using VNc.. > > the reason i wanted to do this, is to allow me to check out the drive > configuration, and to determine what apps i wanted to select at the > beginning... > While I haven't tested remote installs this way, I'd be willing to bet it's possible, but this is _not_ kickstart. I think you get this point now, but kickstart is for fully-automating installs. It doesn't mean you can't monitor an install, but it sounds like all you really need is a network-capable KVM so you can look at a remote console. Regards, Steve
