Table 4.2
Installation (Boot) Scenarios Used in This Chapter
Installation Scenario
Chapter 3, Installation
with YaST
(page 17)
Section 4.1.1, "Simple
Remote Installation via
VNC—Static Network
Configuration"
(page 48)
Section 4.1.2, "Simple
Remote Installation via
VNC—Dynamic Net-
work Configuration"
(page 49)
Section 4.1.3, "Remote
Installation via
VNC—PXE Boot and
Wake on LAN"
(page 51)
Parameters Needed
for Booting
None: system boots au-
tomatically
• Location of the in-
stallation server
• Network device
• IP address
• Netmask
• Gateway
• VNC enablement
• VNC password
• Location of the in-
stallation server
• VNC enablement
• VNC password
• Location of the in-
stallation server
• Location of the
TFTP server
• VNC enablement
• VNC password
Boot Options
None needed
• install=(nfs,http,
ftp,smb):///path
_to_instmedia
• netdevice=some
_netdevice (only need-
ed if several network de-
vices are available)
• hostip=some_ip
• netmask=some
_netmask
• gateway=ip_gateway
• vnc=1
• vncpassword=some
_password
• install=(nfs,http,
ftp,smb):///path
_to_instmedia
• vnc=1
• vncpassword=some
_password
Not applicable; process man-
aged through PXE and DHCP
Remote Installation
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