installing Slackware or debian via telnet?

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Yes, Gentoo could be installed that way, but I find compiling just  
about everything from source to be rather annoying. Maybe I can get a  
telnet server onto the slackware initrd.


On Feb 21, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Tom Moore wrote:

> Nope.
> Gentoo may work.
> Slackware or Debian don't support network based installs.
>
> Tom
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> Hi all
>
> I need to install Linux  on a computer to act as a server.
> Unfortunately, the system is without serial ports and sighted
> assistance is not, repeat not, available. I've tried installing
> fedora core 4 via telnet, but the NIC on this system which has an
> nVidia NForce chipset is not one of the drivers loaded when doing a
> telnet install. Is there any way to install either slackware or
> debian via telnet?
>
> Thanks
>
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