From: John P . Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Wed 06 Oct 1999 - 13:07:12 IST
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 09:14:35AM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe mentioned:
> Yeah, I already have someone doing me a boot prom for a different box, but
> I wanted to see if it would be technically possible to do it entirely
> remotely.
Not really. Does the boot image support a serial terminal ? Then at least
you could have a console (via another machine or a terminal server).
> Hmmm... can I do an install of RH6.1 on a different machine, copy an image
> off the partition, copy it across the network, create a partition on the
> remote machine, dd the image into it, make that image bootable, and then
> remotely reboot the machine?
Suppose. You do realise that you are admitting to the world what an
awkward git you are, yes ?
Kate
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