Re: F11 Live CD Capabilities Info

2009-07-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Booting the server with the live CD? Yeah, I need to update the image on the servers USB key that it boots from. The only way to do it is to physically remove the USB key and put in my wkst so I can write to it which requires me to be onsite or boot the server via

RE: F11 Live CD Capabilities Info

2009-07-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
From the sounds of things, you would probably be better off making a custom key with sshd running at boot, password logins turned off, and your public key listed as an authorized key. I have not used it, but the software to make your own live cd is available in the repositories. Maybe someone

Re: F11 Live CD Capabilities Info

2009-07-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:16 + Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have some remote work over a painfully slow link if using graphics. So don't do a graphical remote login. A simple ssh login will give you a bash terminal and you can type whatever you need into that. Better yet, can I interrupt

RE: F11 Live CD Capabilities Info

2009-07-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
So don't do a graphical remote login. A simple ssh login will give you a bash terminal and you can type whatever you need into that. So I take it the live cd has an ssh server and CIFS support? You can boot into runlevel 3 by putting a 3 at the end of the appropriate line in grub.conf or by

Re: F11 Live CD Capabilities Info

2009-07-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:08:21 + Joseph L. Casale wrote: So don't do a graphical remote login. A simple ssh login will give you a bash terminal and you can type whatever you need into that. So I take it the live cd has an ssh server and CIFS support? I don't know. I assumed you had an

Re: F11 Live CD Capabilities Info

2009-07-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have some remote work over a painfully slow link if using graphics. To accomplish what I need to do, a dd of a file that resides on a CIFS share onto a USB key of a server, I was thinking of booting the machine with an F11 Live CD so I could do this all in one hit.

RE: F11 Live CD Capabilities Info

2009-07-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Booting the server with the live CD? Yeah, I need to update the image on the servers USB key that it boots from. The only way to do it is to physically remove the USB key and put in my wkst so I can write to it which requires me to be onsite or boot the server via some live cd so I can get