Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> When I’m installing Debian on one of the serial-console-only boxes, such as the SheevaPlug or OpenRD, I usually use the “network console” option that allows me to use ssh to login and run the Debian installer from the comfort of my office chair — away from the cold noisy machine room! If I need to see the logs or test some parameters, I can always ssh again and get another shell window. Of course, I still have to be there at the start-up, to push the “reset” button and use the serial console to handle the initial bootstrap/installation questions before the ssh server becomes available, but that’s only for a few minutes.
>
> How does your proposed change alter that?
As Martin pointed before (on my original RFC post), screen support
seems not as important for network-console (SSH) target, compared to
netboot (serial console) target.
But here's some improvement by introducing screen to network-console:
- you only need to have one SSH session to the device you run D-I, and
you can have multiple task in one physical window: 1. run d-i; 2. have
command line; 3. check install log
- if your SSH connection is lost, by any reason, you can reconnect
SSH, and screen will resume the session for you.
Are you convinced?
Cheers,
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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