Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian
Could debian be installed over skype from a remote location?
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:10:40PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where
> > hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us $4000K for a kind
> > of setup we need therefore being a small company we decided to build
> > our own hosting platform for our virtualized environment just for
> > demoing our application to our customers and server will be reside in
> > US office. now what is coming in my head is how will i install debian
> > remotely.
> >
> >
> > Since we have 1 technical resource their with almost no Linux
> > experience so i think for just installing Debian squeeze i had to
> > spoon feed him from very basic which i don't want.
> >
> > an idea comes in my head and how practical is it. that is where i
> > need your advice.
> >
> > i am planning to create a bootable USB stick from Debian squeeze and
> > then i will take the backup and send it to US office where he (our
> > tech guy) just has to use clonzilla or any other image software to
> > restore that data on another same space USB. and then has to boot the
> > server from it. after all that i will definitly get (pre-configured)
> > ssh console. i will further setup the local hard drives by he help of
> > consoles.
> >
> > does it sound good. or i would face any issue in long term. if you
> > think it is fine. then my question is how. i never done this before
> > and easy to implement advice/suggestion will be highly appreciated if
> > any.
> >
> Why not just configure a Debian system at your location, and then ship
> the hard drive to be installed in the system at the remote location.
> This typically works just fine, with the worst problems being things
> like new names for your network device and cdrom (eth0 becomes eth1,
> /dev/cdrom becomes /dev/cdrom2). But even that is preventable by
> deleting certain files in /dev/udev/rules.d.
>
> -Rob
>
>
>
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