Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-19 Thread David G . Miller
Billy Crook bcrook@... writes: What about when special modules need to be in the initrd for hardware upon which boot depends (raid cards, SAN HBAs, NICs sometimes)? On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:26 AM, David G. Miller dave@... wrote: Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at ... writes: So I'm in a

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-18 Thread David G . Miller
Ashley M. Kirchner ashley@... writes: So I'm in a bit of a pickle ... I have a machine that needs to be repurposed from WinXP to CentOS. I downloaded the CentOS DVD and all then realized ... I don't have a keyboard/mouse for the machine. It only has USB ports on it, and I don't have a

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-18 Thread Billy Crook
What about when special modules need to be in the initrd for hardware upon which boot depends (raid cards, SAN HBAs, NICs sometimes)? On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:26 AM, David G. Miller d...@davenjudy.org wrote: Ashley M. Kirchner ashley@... writes: So I'm in a bit of a pickle ... I have a

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Presumably, that's what you'd use kickstart for ... but I'm going to leave that for someone with more knowledge answer that. I'm just happy with a working system right now. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Billy Crook bcr...@riskanalytics.comwrote: What about when special modules need to be

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Billy Crook bcr...@riskanalytics.com wrote: What about when special modules need to be in the initrd for hardware upon which boot depends (raid cards, SAN HBAs, NICs sometimes)? If you are building an image to run on a different system, you can add the drivers

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-17 Thread m . roth
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: So I'm in a bit of a pickle ... I have a machine that needs to be repurposed from WinXP to CentOS. I downloaded the CentOS DVD and all then realized ... I don't have a keyboard/mouse for the machine. It only has USB ports on it, and I don't have a single available

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-17 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:56 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Suggestion: check the closets, and people's desks. Certainly, we have a *lot* of crap (i.e., IDE drives, old, OLD SCSI drives) laying around. I have a strict rule at the office: if no one's using it, throw it out. MY actual office is

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/17/2013 9:52 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: I don't have a keyboard/mouse for the machine. It only has USB ports on it, and I don't have a single available USB keyboard that I can plug in. you can't even borrow a USB key/mouse off another system for the 5 minutes it would take to get

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Stone
Have a look at this: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall Chris On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.comwrote: So I'm in a bit of a pickle ... I have a machine that needs to be repurposed from WinXP to CentOS. I downloaded the CentOS DVD

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-17 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Yeah, that didn't work as expected ... The system was setup to always boot from the HD first ... in order to change that I had to go in the BIOS and flip the order around so it would boot from the CD. So, I ended up stealing a coworker's keyboard when they went to lunch. Returned it before they