Thanks for all the replies. The swapping of harddisks has already crossed my mind although I admit I havent thought of the architecture angle. I also wouldn't want to swap out the innards of my current system because the beast is a little tight and I worked real hard to have it recognize all the IDE peripherals attached.
Just to clarify things, I only asked the question because Im not sure I still have a serial keyboard at home and I wouldn't buy one because of space issues in jungle that I call my room and the keyboard is bound to be junked somewhere after all is done. And I also think doing it this way would be one good experience. To reiterate, thanks for all the response. This will have to wait until I get back home to manila. :) ciao! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fooler Sent: 24. helmikuuta 2003 5:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [plug] network installation on a keyboardless machine Importance: High ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pablo Manalastas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [plug] network installation on a keyboardless machine > Why don't you remove the HD, transfer the HD to a machine with > keyboard and monitor, and then after installation, put the HD back > into the original keyboardless machine? there is a drawback when doing this doc... if the admin is know nothing about the differences between i386, i586 or i686 precompiled kernels since the orignal hardware is pentium 166... putting the harddisk on the latest pentium machine and the installer used the higher precompiled kernel for that processor to take advantage of it and putting it back to pentium 166, the results will be kernel panic or hangup... a while ago i was thinking why he wanted for a keyboardless and monitorless installation and make his life complicated while he can easily put a temporary keyboard and monitor just to make his life easy :-> or maybe just for a curiosity sake he wanted to learn how to install linux under keyboardless and monitorless environment ;-> fooler. <snip> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
