Remote CentOS installation

CentOS as well as RedHat and other RedHat based distributions offer the possibility to install the system remotely. All you have to do is to add the following line to the boot prompt:

vnc headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0

You may want to protect your installation by using a password for the VNC connection, in this case use:

vnc vncpassword=YOURPASSWORD headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0

Or you might want to combine this with an automatic install so you have a remote monitor for the automatic installation:

vnc vncpassword=YOURPASSWORD headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 ks=http://some.server.tld/ks.cfg

With this possibilities you can do the next step and combine this with PXE and static DHCP and ... to get a fully unattended automated install method without the need to be onside at no time (when someone else plugin in the server at the datacenter and provide you the MAC address).