installing remotely

[Chris Norman]

What would be the point? You wouldn't know where the DHCP had put the 
computer... :-D

Cheers,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <butchb at shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: installing remotely


> 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-----
>>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
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>>> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:34 AM
>>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>> Cc: RadSurfer at yahoo.com
>>> 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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