> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:52:37PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Replying to the message sent by R.Stepanyan on 04 Jun 2003 20:06:48 > +0200, received at 19:51:09 on 04/06/2003. R.Stepanyan wrote: >Hi all, > >I would like to ask for any information regarding an installation of >Debian on a monitorless PC. The idea is to use a box without >videocard and monitor, but with HDD and 2 network cards as a >"server" for a small home network (basically - I do not have place >and money to by videocard and monitor, but do have a laptop with >debian on it). My idea was to boot the monitorless box from a >floppy/CD in such a way, that 1. eth0 (for internal network) gets >configured from init script 2. sshd/telned starts up from init >script 3. make telnet/ssh from my laptop and configure it further, >which includes all procedures, starting from fdisk, installind >Debian, and ending with config of the eth1 for the external network. > >So, the question is: are there any ready images available for this >kind of tasks. HOWTO's or just a piece of advice are also wellcome. > >I am not quite sure that this question corresponds to the subjects >discussed in this list. So, my excusses if it is an off-topic. > >Thank you in advance > >RS > maybe you could set it up on two PCs with exactly the same images and > select the items at the right time... Bit if anything goes wrong with the > monitorless one it will mess you up big time.. > > I have cc'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] on this >
You can do a serial install, mentioned in the install manual section 5.1. Hook up your other computer to the serial port, and start a terminal program like ZTerm there. Then boot with a floppy. The kernel will usually detect the serial terminal and respond there; if not add console=ttyS0 and possibly the baud rate to your boot arguments. BTW, when sending to debian lists ALWAYS send in plain text. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
