[syslinux] FW: Headless operations

[Miller, Shao]

...zzZZ...  *ifconfig* *DHCP logs* *netstat*...ZZzz...  (Sleeping) -
Shao

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Miller [mailto:Chris at InfoGreat.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 02:05
To: Miller, Shao
Subject: RE: [syslinux] Headless operations

Hi Folks,

I trimmed my EXTLinux.conf to one stanza, as suggested.  Then I use my
newly
acquired knowledge of the virtual terminals and I peeked at VT4.  I saw
some
interesting things:

This is probably meaningless, since it is true that this machine has no
floppy...
FATAL: Error inserting floppy
(/lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko.gz)
No
such device



And I saw network interface activity:

NetworkManager (eth0) device state change : 1 -> 2
<6>b44 eth0: link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
NetworkManager (eth0) device state change : 2 -> 3



All good news but not unexpected.  However, a ping scan of my network
failed
to uncover this machine:
nmap -sP 10.1.2.0/24

I believe him to be 10.1.2.22 and vncviewer got "connection refused"

So, he is at the very least anti-social.  Additional suggestions
welcome.

Thanks for the help.


Chris.

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
Life is a journey, not a destination ...

 
> Try this simple extlinux.cfg file:
> 
> DEFAULT foo
> 
> LABEL foo
>   KERNEL /boot/Fedora-10/isolinux/vmlinuz
>   APPEND initrd=/boot/Fedora-10/isolinux/initrd.img ro 
> headless vnc vncpassword=install noipv6 lang=en_US keymap=us ip=dhcp
> 
> - Shao Miller