[Fedora] Re: Remote VNC install

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 13:00 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Mail List wrote:
> >    What happened for me - I booted the installer out of grub with
> >    kernel ... vnc vncconnect=<ip> ip=dhcp lang=en_US keymap=us device=ethX
> >
> >    it boots and anaconda prompts for other eth device info before starting up 
> > vnc - so I had to type at console to tell it info about the other nics - 
> > after that it talks the listening vnc client at remote end - 
>     Well, I went ahead and tried with the following:
> 
> ----------
> title Fedora Core 6 Install
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-FC6 lang=en_US keymap=us 
> method=nfs:192.168.2.24:/Fedora vnc device=eth1 ip=192.168.2.10 
> netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.2.1 dns=192.168.2.1
>         initrd /boot/initrd-FC6.img
> ----------
> 
>     Rebooted, installer came up and asked exactly 1 question:  Which 
> device to configure.  All I had to do was highlight eth1 and hit return 
> and it continued on.  Didn't ask me for any more information and went 
> straight into Anaconda and launched VNC after which I was able to connect.
> 
>     My co-worker now dubs himself 'The Monkey that pushed the button.'
> 
>     So it seems the installer ignores the device= option.  A bug perhaps?

More like a "which NIC is eth1?" problem.  I don't know if there's a way
to specify which NIC to use on the kernel line when there's multiple
NICs installed.  Perhaps a new parameter, "hwaddr=" or something along
that nature.

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