On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:21:22 -0800 (PST) "Eric Paynter"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| What's the best way to install gentoo remotely? i.e. I've got a
| person with enough skill to put a CD in the CD-ROM tray and boot
| from it. Anything else is difficult, even with them on the phone. So
| I want to get sshd up and running ASAP in the install process. Is
| there a predefined "gentoo" way to do this, or am I inventing one?

Can your hardware do serial boot? If so, IP remote console is even
easier than firing up sshd...

If you're brave, you *could* make a catalyst CD that sets the password
upon boot and then starts sshd for you... Although I'd suggest waiting
until catalyst is officially released before trying that.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web:     http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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