RHEL and clones offer the possibility to launch a VNC installer. I’ve been using this for years to install RHEL clones on routerboards using a serial connection and Minicom. This has been working great for RHEL 8.x clones like Rocky Linux 8.x and AlmaLinux 8.x.
Unfortunately the VNC installer in RHEL 9.x clones has a critical bug that makes it unusable. When I launch the installer on a local machine (inst.vnc inst.vncpassword=vncpass) and then connect to it from my workstation using KRDC, the mouse is moving but mouse clicks aren’t taken into account. Which means I’m stuck at Anaconda’s welcome window and I can’t move further.
Since I’m only using RHEL clones like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux but not the RealThing™ (e. g. upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux) I thought I’d report the bug here.
From what I have read, and I hope I am not mistaken, this issue does not exist with RHEL. It is likely that both distributions will be improved in the future and this issue will be quickly patched.
Hmmm. KRDC usually works perfectly, and it’s also nicely integrated into KDE. I gave this a spin using TigerVNC, Remmina and VNCViewer, with the same result. No way to get the mouse to click.