Hi folks,

I see from TUV's installation manual I should be able to launch a vnc  
server as part of the install procedure.

however I don't seem to get this working - perhaps because I force  
text mode anyway? or is it disabled in the SL version of anaconda?

I have (in the pxe config)
	append initrd=initrd-sl-5x-i386 keymap=uk lang=en_GB ks=http://master.beowulf.cluster/alt/autokick.php 
  ksdevice=eth0 vnc


and in the generated kickstart config:

install
url --url http://master.beowulf.cluster/linux/scientific/5x/i386
network --device=eth0 --bootproto dhcp
lang en_GB.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
keyboard uk
mouse none
skipx
text
rootpw --iscrypted [REMOVED]
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone --utc Europe/London
bootloader --location=mbr
reboot
vnc
clearpart --initlabel --all --drives=hda
part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size=200 --ondisk=hda
part pv.4 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=hda
volgroup linuxvg pv.4
logvol / --fstype "ext3" --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=4096 -- 
name=rootlv --vgname=linuxvg
logvol swap --fstype swap --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=4096 -- 
name=swaplv --vgname=linuxvg
logvol /opt --fstype "ext3" --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=4096 -- 
name=optlv --vgname=linuxvg
logvol /var --fstype "ext3" --size=4096 --grow --maxsize=8192 -- 
name=varlv --vgname=linuxvg
logvol /home --fstype "ext3" --size=1024 --name=homelv --vgname=linuxvg
logvol /tmp --fstype "ext3" --size=8000 --name=tmplv --vgname=linuxvg


I'm not doing the 'connect to listening client' voodoo - but I was  
under the impression this would still work if I connect a client at  
the right time on the right (unspecified!) port


If anyone has experience of this could they let me know?

Many thanks

Andrew


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