On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:26:06AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:22:26AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to install debian on a remote x86 box, where i have nothing > > apart > > from a network connection, and ssh into an existing redhat system (and a > > free > > 1GB swap partition i can scavenge). > > > > As i see it, without needing the kvm again, there are two possibilities for > > it: > > > > 1) use the netboot image, but boot it directly from disk with lilo, and > > use > > the ssh frontend. > > > > 2) use preseeding and do a fully automated blind install. This is rather > > chancy though, especially as we don't have a local mirror system to test > > run > > it. > > > 3) debootstrap, chroot into it for running the bootloader[1]
Nope, tried, didn't work. I have good faith in the following method, thanks for joeyh for helping me out on this yesterday : Build a custom netboot image, with the network console included, and a preseed file on the initrd, which would setup all the early stuff (mostly ssh password and static network setup). Either replace network-preseed with file-preseed, or put the preseed file on a http server, but this is less secure since we are preseeding the ssh password too. Still for the small windows of install, it is probably not a big risk. Thanks for your help though, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
