On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 11:27 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 5/31/24 7:02 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
OVH uses iPXE so you can upload a script that points to any HTTPS server, even a public one like https://netboot.xyz/ But PXE doesn't provide any kind of graphical access at all, unless you use IPMI, which brings you back to square one anyway. So this is a lot more work unless you plan to install a lot of Fedora servers, in which case you also want to use kickstart and not a graphical install. ;-)
If you can specify the parameters, then the PXE boot can do VNC as well.
If you could just paste an iPXE script in the OVH control panel it would be alright, but you have to muck around with the API: https://github.com/gmasse/ovh-ipxe-customer-script
#!ipxe set base https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/40/Everything/x... kernel ${base}/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.repo=${base} inst.vnc inst.vncpassword=PASSWORD initrd ${base}/images/pxeboot/initrd.img boot
But since OP is having issues with IPMI timeouts and lags on install which very well may be related to mounting an ISO via Java applet, it may be worth figuring out. :-)