At the moment, I'm working in a lab with an isolated network and have a working Jumpstart environment. I'm using PXE boot to boot my x86 servers to the network for an unattended Jumpstart installation over the wire.

I've also developed a bootable DVD with a self contained custom Jumpstart installation that I plan to deploy to remote servers across the WAN. The DVD will be mounted as virtual media, using a lights-out solution such as HP's iLO2, allowing a server to boot from the DVD as if it were local, for a remote installation.

The unattended installation is working fine but I want to eliminate the GUI and keep the entire process to a text session. The reason for eliminating the GUI from the process is simply to keep the bandwidth down to a minimum for the WAN install. The self contained DVD is being used because DHCP over the WAN is not an option.

I'm certain there is a way to remove the GUI from the Jumpstart process, I've just not stumbled across it yet. Any help you can provide will be appreciated.

Thanks