Re: Headless Installation

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:31, Adi Linden wrote:
> > You -could- (I stress could here) use 'fai', but I suspect that you'd
> > consider that overkill on you part. Indeed, I'd agree. What you'd 
really
> > want to do is use 'deboostrap' on the headless server. There's plenty 
of
> > documentation on how to do this.
> 
> To use 'deboostrap' I already need a working Unix/Linux system (reading 
> <http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apcs03.html#id2521775>). I 
am 
> looking for something more along the line of a regular installation CD 
> that is non-interactive but installs a bare Debian system automatically.

Wouldn't that be possible using a live cd (mepis/knoppix/etc)?

I've not done this myself, so it's only a thought...

-- 
richard