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Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?



Hi Gary,
Thanks for your interest.

This is in pursuit of Bug#728936 (and related bugs #715408 and 731939)  wherein the USB keyboard and mouse are not recognized by the installer, thus making it impossible to specify any options past the bootloader.

The idea is to pressed the installer to auto-answer all debian-installer questions up-to and including loading the ssh server and "network console", thus giving me an alternate way to get in and poke-around in the installation.   Hopefully, with this I can find out why the USB keyboard and mouse are not being recognized, and propose a fix.

Do you have any experience making a pre seeded bootable CD for powerpc?  If so, could you share it with us?

Rick



On Jan 5, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Gary Driggs <gdriggs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> So I think I could do the same thing on a PowerPC Mac if I knew the ppc equivalents of isolinux.cfg as used by you for i386 -- and the ppc equivalent of the genisoimage magic you use to make the bootable image.
> 
> I thought that any advanced installation would give you a menu option to turn on SSH to finish the installation. Or does this config turn it on much earlier in the process?
> 
> -Gary


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