Re: load tightvnc-server before OS install?

Yeah, the stage you're describing here is where I was 6 years ago, LOL. Let's just say that windowsPE is not as reliable as Microsoft purports it to be, and they put an autoreboot after 48 hours in it, because they thought it crashes too often. :D

On Feb. 7, 2022 03:08, Mael Jeuffrard <[email protected]> wrote:


If I understood well you need to install windows without any
interaction ?

If so, default boot = pxe + automatic unattended windows install
should be fine.



Just in case:

Intel integrate a kind of VNC in vPro CPU.




On 04.02.22 23:55, Stanislav Kogan
wrote:




This
is not possible for my purposes: my use case is automatic
management of laptops in a kiosk setup.


There is no IPMI, BMC or any of the other server resources
available.




Quoting Patrick Shoaf <[email protected]> :





Personally, for headless system I
recommend using IMPI via TCP/IP as you can also handle BIOS
changes and settings, as well as power on/off and reboot the
machine. The other option if to use an IP KVM solution. Any
software solution requires a running OS and you can't see
anything until the boot OS is loaded and then the software must
load before you can connect.




I bought a new HP PC and it now has screensave, sleep, and
shutdown settings in the BIOS!! You can't change that remotely
unless your now 1) not headless, 2) use IPMI, or 3) use IP KVM.




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On 2/4/2022 2:31 PM, Stanislav Kogan wrote:



Hi.




"Probably" is a very strong word. ;)




I would have loved to use something besides VNC, but there is
really only one other alternative called DART, which seems to
be a horribly proprietary piece of software that no self
respecting sysadmin would want to use.




I'm currently exploring a way to switch over to some kind of
terminal sharing over SSH instead, but no luck for now. VNC
was a quick and easy. :(






Quoting Tony Su <[email protected]> :





The real question should be why you
would want to use VNC at all


during the pre-installation stage at all.


Whatever your needs are, there's probably a simple solution
available


without using VNC.




Tony




On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 6:01 AM Stanislav Kogan
<[email protected]> wrote:






Hi.




What you need is to integrate VNC into the Windows
Preinstallation


Environment image.




This is totally doable, but TightVNC has been having
problems with


running under WindowsPE since about a year ago and they
are still not


corrected. Right now, if you connect to VNC server running
under


WinPE, you get a black screen and a severe reduction in
performance.


Very few people use this, so there seems to be no interest
in coming


up with a fix, unfortunately.






Here is a howto on integration of tightVNC in WinPE:




https://github.com/sjkingo/winpe_vnc 








Quoting Rusty Travis <[email protected]> :





I have a Windows 10 ISO file to
install on a machine that will be


headless, z.b. no monitor, keyboard or mouse.




Is it possible somehow to pre-load the tightvnc server
into the ISO


file so that I may remotely view the OS installation
screen?










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