Comments on: Reinstall CentOS using grub http://www.thegoldfish.org/2009/12/reinstall-centos-using-grub/ blogging it so I dont forget it Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: thughes http://www.thegoldfish.org/2009/12/reinstall-centos-using-grub/comment-page-1/#comment-58 thughes Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:01:59 +0000 http://www.thegoldfish.org/?p=34#comment-58 <a href="#comment-57" rel="nofollow">@andrew </a> I don't see why not although I haven't tried it before. Take a look at the bottom of the anaconda documentation at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options and the Kickstart docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart . Both of them have methode for enabling VNC and should work depending on your use case. I think you will get a VNC connection earlier in the boot process with the Anaconda one which may enable you to see issues that may occur before the kickstart file is retrieved. Please come back and let us know how you get on. @andrew
I don’t see why not although I haven’t tried it before. Take a look at the bottom of the anaconda documentation at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options and the Kickstart docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart . Both of them have methode for enabling VNC and should work depending on your use case. I think you will get a VNC connection earlier in the boot process with the Anaconda one which may enable you to see issues that may occur before the kickstart file is retrieved. Please come back and let us know how you get on.

]]> By: andrew http://www.thegoldfish.org/2009/12/reinstall-centos-using-grub/comment-page-1/#comment-57 andrew Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:43:23 +0000 http://www.thegoldfish.org/?p=34#comment-57 Instead of starting a kickstart install, is it possible to start a VNC install ? I am always considering a easiest way of installing Centos remotely. Instead of starting a kickstart install, is it possible to start a VNC install ? I am always considering a easiest way of installing Centos remotely.

]]> By: Avi Brender http://www.thegoldfish.org/2009/12/reinstall-centos-using-grub/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Avi Brender Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:47:17 +0000 http://www.thegoldfish.org/?p=34#comment-52 Hi, Great script! One suggested modification would be to change: repourl=$(curl $ksurl 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*\(http\)/\1/ p') to: repourl=$(curl $ksurl 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/^url.*\(http\)/\1/ p') That way config files that contain other URLs (in ours we have %ksappend http://) won't interfere with the script getting the proper repo URL. Hi,

Great script! One suggested modification would be to change:
repourl=$(curl $ksurl 2>/dev/null | sed -n ‘s/.*\(http\)/\1/ p’)
to:
repourl=$(curl $ksurl 2>/dev/null | sed -n ‘s/^url.*\(http\)/\1/ p’)

That way config files that contain other URLs (in ours we have %ksappend http://) won’t interfere with the script getting the proper repo URL.

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