On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 12:35 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > I have my Dell Optiplex GX270 here with Fedora 7 and I'm thinking to > upgrade to CentOS 5.2. I'm planning to format the machine. > > My only issue: I don't have any monitor to connect to this machine (I > don't have a monitor here at all). > > Most of the servers today gives you the option to connect to a serial > port or VNC and do a remote install, but this machine doesn't have any > of those capabilities. I can boot from hard disk, floppy, but I cannot > setup the BIOS either ... since I don't have a monitor. > > So what is the best way to install CentOS to this machine "blind"? I > thought about creating a kickstart floppy but then I recalled that I > cannot feed any parameters to the boot line. I can't use any PXE > tricks either since I cannot go into the BIOS screen.. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > Hetz
.. Wait a minute. You have a working Linux setup? Does it include a separate boot partition? - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
