Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS
Hello.
I'd like to install Debian in an unmanaged VPS which has Debian
installed already. This is so that I can customize the installation by
using LVM for instance. I'm following
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote> but it seems like I'd
have to keep an ISO image in the hard disk to do a HD-based installation
if I can't use a virtualized CD and hence would need to keep at least
one partition intact. Is there a way to avoid this?.
I suppose that it's possible—at least in principle—to build an ISO image
which is scripted to copy itself to a tmpfs and then debian-installer
can continue reading it from there rather than from the hard disk
directly (So that the hard disk can be modified without the constrain of
keeping the ISO). Are there instructions on how to do this?.
Otherwise, is it possible to cram a complete Debian installer into a
initrd?.
Please point me in the right direction.
I found <http://www.centosx.com/install-centos-remotely-through-vnc/>
for CentOS. Apparently there are install images expressly configured for
remote installation for Red Hat based distributions. Is there something
similar for Debian?. If not, please consider my suggestion to include
this feature in a future release.
Regards and thanks.
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