Woody, I have one word for you.... "Troll".... The question is am I refering to your comment or visage? ;-)
-Weave On 8/29/06, Douglas Hardison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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/
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