On Fri, 22 May 2009 16:02:45 -0600 Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 15:36 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > One nice thing about gentoo installation: you can SSH into the > > install CD, and do the installation from the comfort of your own > > laptop. Including copying and pasting commands from the installation > > instructions. Other disties, please note! > > Would it be rude to yawn? Yes, but don't let that stop you on this list. :-) > > Anaconda (Red Hat's installer) has supported both telnet and VNC for a > long time. I never got the VNC stuff to work well on Fedora, but that could be my problem. Now, if I could get the ncurses version of Anaconda to show up on my laptop, that would be nice. The ncurses version is more flexible if a bit more awkward than the GUI version. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options > > YaST/linuxrc (SUSE's installer) has supported both SSH and VNC for a > long time. > > http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/suse9.3/suselinux-adminguide_en/sec.suse.linuxrc.html > > I don't consider lack of encryption a big deal. Installs should always > be performed in an isolated environment anyway... Unless you're stuck > using and Internet dependent installer like Gentoo's. ;-) My attitude is: if you have wireless on your network, assume it's cracked. Which means I'm not wild about shipping my root password over telnet Also, ssh does a better job of bringing the server to you than telnet does. That is, the local integration is better. Case in point, X tunneling. No need to fiddle with xhost (not that that's relevant to gentoo's installation process). SSH access means using emacs' tramp mode on the target. So I can use my full up laptop installation of emacs to edit files on the target even while running the minimal installation CD. It's like editing a local file except it's actually in the target. Tramp mode can use telnet, but I haven't tried it. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
