installing remotely

[Janina Sajka]

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

You should be able to find it pretty easily by pinging the broadcast
address.


> 
> 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 
> >>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> >>> 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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