From: Colin Whittaker (grimnar at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Wed 19 Jun 2002 - 21:11:20 IST
Rick Moen stated the following on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:17:17PM -0700 :
> Quoting Colin Whittaker (grimnar at domain redbrick.dcu.ie):
>
> > I have a bunch of machines which are far away from me.
> > I want to install linux and in particular debian on them.
> >
> > Is there an easy way of creating a bootable CD that I can post to
> > someone at the remote sites and have them stick in the drive and reboot.
> > The sites have enough bandwidth to do remote package installation.
>
> How automated do you need? You could have them install the Debian Base
> from something like this (my favourite, in general):
Monkey place cd in drive
power cycle
box installs itself with out user intervention
I can then log in via ssh and finish off install etc..
At some point onsite monkey has to remove the cd form drive
proably prior to finishing the installs
getting access to the serial port for console stuff is possible in all
of the sites.
Colin
-- "Design" is like a religion - too much of it makes you inflexibly and unpopular. Linus Torvalds
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