Re: Re: Is this possible using Kickstart?

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 06:22:02 +0800
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@redhat.com>

you need the reboot directive in the ks.cfg

On 7/31/05, Rik Herrin <rikherrin@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thanks a lot. I was able to pull it off although
> I've only been trying it locally before trying it
> remotely. The only problem so far is that it gives me
> a message:
> Complete
> Congradulations, your Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
> installation is complete.
> ...
> ...
> Press <Enter> to reboot your system.
>
> Is there any way to make it skip this screen and
> automatically reboot the system? Thanks for your
> time.
>
> > From: Eris <eris-redhat-list@eldalin.com>
> > Subject: Re: Is this possible using Kickstart?
>
> > On Friday 29 July 2005 02:21 pm, Rik Herrin wrote:
>
> > I want to put the Red Hat EL isos on a partition
> and
> > configure grub to automatically start a kickstart
> > installation.
> ...
> > The server is on a remote machine which I only have
> ssh
> > access to.
>
> >What you need can be done, but it is tricky because
> everything has to go exactly right or else you will be
> paying your hosting company to restore your hard
> drive. I've only done this once and I was doing it on
> my home LAN only as practice in case I ever needed to
> do it for real. It took me several tries to get it
> right, so if you can practice on a local LAN first
> where you have physical access, that would be good.
> >
> >WARNING! If you can get your hosting provider to do
> this for you, then pay
> >them to do it! It's much easier to install the OS if
> you have physical access. If they won't do it, try to
> find someone who has experience doing remote installs
> and pay that person - and make sure they will cover
> any fees to your hosting provider if something goes
> wrong.
> >
> >Essentially, all you need to do is add the kickstart
> file to the installation floppy disk image and modify
> the installation disks startup script to use it. Then
> write that disk image to an empty partition on the
> existing server. I disabled the existing swap
> partition and used it. It doesn't matter that the
> partition is bigger than the floppy image; once the
> new system is running, you can just reinitialize it as
> a swap partition.
> >
> >Once the disk image is loaded on the hard drive, add
> it into the grub configuration and set it as the
> default.
> >
> >Then reboot.
> >
> >And hope that you did everything right, because you
> will not be able to see any error messages during the
> installation. It either works and the system reboots
> on it's own, or it fails and you have to get the drive
> restored and you start over.
> >
> >When I did this I was installing RedHat Linux 8, so
> things may be very different now. I make no guarantee
> that it is still possible, but I have no
> >reason to think it isn't.
> >
> >But it really is not easy to do a remote install like
> this, and the chance of messing up the system is quite
> high, so again, I urge you to try to find another way,
> and if you must resort to this hack then practice it
> on a spare machine at home first until you can get it
> to work.
> >
> >Another note: I had to configure the kickstart file
> so that it would skip X configuration, but unless you
> will need VNC access, you can probably just not bother
> to install X at all.
>
> >Eris Caffee
>
> Rik Herrin
>
>
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