Just installed severn over VNC. It just worked. Great job :)
Pavel.
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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: | On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:04, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: | | |>Just installed severn over VNC. It just worked. |>Great job :) | | | How did you do that? | I'm *really* curious about it...
It's explained in the release notes. Just pass "vnc" as kernel boot parameter. The only problem I had with this is that you have to manually assign an IP address to the system using ifconfig on console #2. I've already filed a bug in bugzilla on this issue.
VNC install is definitely a really cool new feature.
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On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 14:04, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:04, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
Just installed severn over VNC. It just worked. Great job :)
How did you do that? I'm *really* curious about it...
From the RELEASE-NOTES:
o Installation via VNC is now supported. To initiate a VNC-based installation, pass "vnc" as a boot-time option. If necessary, a password can be set by adding "vncpassword=<password>" to the boot-time options. The VNC display will be "<host>:1", where <host> is the IP address or hostname of the system being installed.
So boot the system to be installed with 'linux vnc', for example. Then on a client machine point vnc at the IP/hostname of the machine being installed with a ':1' appended. You probably want to use a password although vnc is by no means 'locked down' in this mode. Its mostly to make it somewhat difficult for someone else to hijake your install :)
The nice thing of using this versus a redirected X DISPLAY variable is that if the client blows up the VNC session continues, and you can reconnect to the install. With X the install would die as well when the client X server went away.
Michael Fulbright msf@redhat.com Anaconda Team Lead
Can you tell me what is VNC?
Thanks
Bob Cochran
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 14:04, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
Just installed severn over VNC. It just worked. Great job :)
Pavel.
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On 31 Jul 2003, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Can you tell me what is VNC?
http://www.tightvnc.com http://www.tightvnc.com/related.html
rday
Thanks, I appreciate this. Makes very interesting reading. Do you reccomend TightVNC? Should I build from source or use the provided RPMs?
Thanks
Bob Cochran
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 18:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On 31 Jul 2003, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Can you tell me what is VNC?
http://www.tightvnc.com http://www.tightvnc.com/related.html
rday
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Robert L Cochran said:
Thanks, I appreciate this. Makes very interesting reading. Do you reccomend TightVNC? Should I build from source or use the provided RPMs?
Thanks
Bob Cochran
Not a recommendation, but you will also want to check out RealVNC:
Their new beta looks interesting (check the archives for getting it to build on RHL 9).
I'd give them both a try and see which performs better for you. If you are using it over a local network there shouldn't be much performance difference between the two. Oh, and don't forget RH also distributes a version of VNC (which includes the TightVNC extensions).
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