I'm a gentoo fanatic ...and have been using it pretty much since they've been around. I try to keep an open mind, but its hard... very hard...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Hardison Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:42 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Ubuntu Dapper-Drake: Serial Console Install? Brian Weaver wrote: > Rick, > > It's not an issue any longer since I ran into a bigger issue with > Ubuntu 6.06; at least from my perspective. I've abandoned running > Ubuntu on my server and I'm just going to continue running Sarge until > Etch become the stable release from Debian. Hopefully Etch will not > suffer from the same udev problem that Dapper Drake has when there is > an extra IDE controller on the PCI bus. > > -Brian > > On 8/29/06, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 8/26/06, Brian Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Anyone know if it's possible to install Ubuntu 6.06 "server" using >> > a serial console session? I'm pretty sure I did this with Debian >> > last time, but I haven't yet tried it with Ubuntu. I was going to >> > install Ubuntu on a system that is headless and I'm really to lazy >> > attach one if I don't need to. >> > >> > Has the serial port become so out dated? I ask this because I had >> > to build myself a special respin of a rescue cd >> > (http://www.sysresccd.org/) just to get serial support for my >> > headless server. >> >> I haven't tried this myself, but I remember looking at a script >> called debtakeover which could probably be modifed to install ubuntu >> instead of deb stable or one of the debian releases. >> >> Is the serial port the only connection to this machine? You're going >> to need some way to get the packages. If you've got tcp why not use >> ssh or shudder telnet to get into it? If not, what kind of server >> are you building? >> >> -- >> Rick DeNatale >> >> My blog on Ruby >> http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ >> >> IPMS/USA Region 12 Coordinator >> http://ipmsr12.denhaven2.com/ >> >> Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site >> http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ >> -- >> TriLUG mailing list : >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member >> Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >> > > Hmm. There's your problem - Debian. I thought better of you, Weave! Anyone will tell you Gentoo is the way to go ;-) -- dhardison -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
