Re: remote installation

[Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>]

John H. Robinson, IV wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:21:54PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> > I am trying to put together a floppy/CD-ROM such that I can have someone 
> > with little experience (or time) insert this disk, boot the computer, 
> > and I will access it via ssh from there.
>
> 1) does the computer in question have a NIC in it that is compatible
> with the NICs that GRUB supports?
>
> 2) does the computer have a serial port? 3) is there another system with
> an available serial port 4) that you have ssh(or other) access to?
>
> 5) do you have an available dhcp/bootp server and 6) tftp server?

Yes (eepro100)
Yes
No
 (and No)
No
No
:(...

I guess my question is this:
if I can get Linux running from a CD-ROM and access the PC from the 
network.  How then would I initiate the installation process for debian?

I'm not sure how to get the installation started from the point where I 
can ssh into the running Linux OS.  Do I ftp the base.tgz and unpack it 
from there.  ...  I'm just kind of clueless on this part.