Re: remote installation 2

[Glen Mehn <glen@squaretrade.com>]

if you've got a machine that's local to it (i.e., an nfs/tftp server), have a look at:

http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

I suspect that it might be fairly difficult to install the system otherwise, (I dont' think that the bootfloppies/CD supports a serial console) although if you know the hardware well enough it should be possible to tar up the filesystems and install them if you can get someone to boot the machine with tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/) or something along those lines.

Hope this helps...

-glen

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:20:45AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Maybe I asked the wrong question earlier, but it comes from not knowing 
> how the Debian installation works.
> 
> I have available a computer in a very remote (to me) location.
> It's well connected to the internet.
> I want to try and do a Debian installation on it, but am not sure how I 
> can do this when there is no terminal access.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I either need to mount a Debian iso as a loopback 
> device, or manually drop the base.tgz file onto the hard drive.
> I don't think the iso will work as the typical installation will ask me 
> to configure the network, which should already be running.
> 
> So, maybe the question is this:  How do I manually install the base 
> configuration and manually edit *what* files?
> 
> I believe I may be able to use something like LRP to get initial access 
> to the computer, fdisk, copy files, edit configs.  After that, I would 
> cross my fingers and reboot to the hard drive.
> 
> What is executed when you first install Debian?  What's the name of the 
> script that goes through and asks all the fdisk, mount, network 
> information?  If nothing else, I can read the code and take it from 
> there - but I don't know it's name.
> 
> help?
> 
> 
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Glen S Mehn
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