installing remotely

[Butch Bussen]

What would you type if you wanted to use dhcp?
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, 
Janina Sajka wrote:

> This is mostly correct. One suggestion:
>
> Rather than ksdevice=eth0, use the mac address to be very certain telnet
> will talk to the device you intend:
>
> ksdevice=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
>
> PS: The advice here references Fedora, none others.
>
> Tom Moore writes:
>> If my memory serves me right the instructions are:
>> At the boot prompt once you put the cd in the drive type:
>> Text telnet ksdev=/dev/eth0 ip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz netmask=www.xxx.yyy.zzz
>> gateway=www.xxx.yyy.zzz
>> /dev/eth0 being the first network card in the machine that Fedora detects.
>> I believe you can use dhcp as well, but if you do that then you'll have to
>> hunt around for the machine to see what ip it was given by the dhcp server
>> so when I do an install like this I can always know where the machine is.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:34 AM
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>> Subject: installing remotely
>>
>> I've seen references on thist occasionally on either using telnet or a
>> "serial console" to install from another machine.  What do I type at the
>> first prompt to do this?
>> I run an i r l p ham radio Linux box and have done four of these, but
>> always needed sighted help to do the initial install.  Once I get up and
>> running I can use my windows machine witha terminal program and winscp to
>> do what I need.  Hoping there is a way to do this without sighted help.
>> 73s
>> Butch Bussen
>> wa0vjr
>>
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