Re: headless debian

["Michael Mueller" <bhu5nji@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, good question.  For now, just headless operation as a backup to SSH
access.  In the future (6 months), I'll probably want headless install just
for peace-of-mind.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Moss" <tmoss@email.com>
To: "Michael Mueller" <bhu5nji@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: headless debian


> Michael Mueller wrote:
>
> > Can anyone give me a thumbs up/down on running headless (serial console
on
> > ttyS0) with Debian?
> >
> > I am loading Debian 2.2r3 in the AM.
> >
> > This short article specs out the process to set things up
> > (www.osdlab.com/tips/tip_003.shtml) - does this look right?
> >
> > Praise for Debian:
> > I just finished making binary-i386-1.iso using the procedure in
> > pseudo-image-kit-2.0 and I got the md5 checksum correct.  Very cool
> > procedure with excellent documentation.  The download sites I found to
work
> > were busy.  It took me two days of off-and-on downloading.  It's awesome
> > that you can start and stop and use different sites and have the process
> > stay coherent.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Do you need to do a headless install or just run it headless after it's
> installed?
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