Howto: Auto boot and install CD
Recently I was faced with the task to set up a server which had no keyboard and no monitor. Luckily, together with tools like kickstart this is no problem at all.
A total blind install - you could say keyboardless and monitorless - is something which happens almost never in private live. However, I only have a notebook and now I got back an old machine which I would like to set up as a server. But since I had no keyboard and no external monitor I wasn’t sure what to do at first.
But luckily Linux is often installed on servers or in corporate environments where you cannot afford to do every step by hand on a computer. Tools like kickstart and autoyast exist already and provide exactly what I needed.
Basically, all you have to do is to create a configure file which is burned on a boot CD together with the necessary boot stuff. After that, the computer takes over.
he easiest way to do so is to use the service provided by Instalinux.com.
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