What tools are available to help with remote installs of headless machines.

This is purely from the point of view of wanting to 'play' with some of the 
machines I get given. All the machines will be different, different hardware, 
different resources, different needs.

I want to do remote installs, using vnc, on headless machines. I have tried 
this feature out a little on machines that have keyboard and display using 
local and network installation media and being able to control an install 
from the comfort of my own desk was a great boon. I would now like to be able 
to do installs on machines where I just plug in a power and network cable and 
floppy of CD.

What I really want is a way to start an installation with the further option 
'vnc=1 vncpassword=whatever' passed as the default install option, using 
either a floppy or CD.

Are there any tools to help me build such boot installation media?

Thanks on advance.

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