Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2014-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Scott, I've successfully used your procedure (appropriately localized to my own environment) to do an install on an amd64 VM under VMWare Fusion on my friendly local Mac mini. So I think I could do the same thing on a PowerPC Mac if I knew the ppc equivalents of isolinux.cfg as used by you

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 08:57:05PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : Do I have to build my own CD? Or is there some way I can use a standard netinst CD, put a magic parameter on the boot command line and maybe something (what?) on a handy USB stick, and have it all fall into place? This seems

Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process when the keyboard/mouse are frozen. This is part of my pursuit of

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks for responding, Scott! On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? Yes - at least with the i386

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process when

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation