And keep in mind that you only get a shell prompt AFTER a certain stage of the kickstart - I believe once the packages start installing... until then, its just an empty screen.
Thanks, Kevin From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olt, Joseph Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 7:23 AM To: [email protected]; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5(Tikanga) discussion mailing-list; Sharpe, Sam J Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] Logging In During a Kickstart Installation Rigoberto, You won't get it to work through VNC. This is one of the virtual consoles that only work at the physical console. It should work through iLO, because it appears as the local console. If it isn't working through iLO, you may need a special key combination. Regards, Joseph ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rigoberto Corujo Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:08 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list; Sharpe, Sam J Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Logging In During a Kickstart Installation Thanks guys, but I'm logged in remotely and even with a VNC session, the Ctrl-Alt-F2 keys don't seem to be doing anything. I'm guessing that, perhaps, Windows Vista is intercepting them. It doesn't work either if I'm logged in via the remote console capability of the machine's management port (e.g. iLO). Rigoberto --- On Fri, 3/6/09, Sharpe, Sam J <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sharpe, Sam J <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Logging In During a Kickstart Installation To: [email protected], "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 7:51 AM 2009/3/6 Rigoberto Corujo <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if it's possible to log in to the system being installed > during a kickstart installation? It seems that "stage2.img" in the RAM Disk > doesn't contain sshd, so I can't log in via ssh. I didn't see "xterm" > either in "stage2.img". I want to be able to get to the shell prompt while > the installation is taking place. Is there another method I can use? If you have local access, you can just do CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to the second console, which is a shell within the installation environment. If you want to look at it remotely, try a remote VNC install: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/ -- Sam
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