RE: remote installation 2

["Glen S Mehn" <glen@squaretrade.com>]

I think that that sounds like the idea-- if you've got a way to get the CD
in, some OS booted, and some form of console on it, you can do that fairly
well. I've got a friend who does his mass-installs that way.

glen


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Allison [mailto:tallison1@twmi.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 03:52 PM
To: Glen Mehn
Cc: debian-cd
Subject: Re: remote installation 2


Glen Mehn wrote:

> 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


I'm thinking that my best option would be to build a complete, yet small
Debian install (my distro of choice for this project) and move it onto a CD.
Booting that, I would copy it onto an fdisked hard drive, edit
/etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo accordingly.
Pull the CD, reboot, and hope for the best.

I just have to figure out how my CD-RW works, I've never tried
configuring it under linux.  It's my last piece of hardware out of five
PC's...

And yes, it does help.  Thank you!