Monitoring an installation via VNC or SSH.

[ftclausen]

Hi All,

I don't yet have a FAI infrastructure set up but, for now, I wish to simply pop in a DVD and then complete the installation remotely via VNC or SSH. Is something like this possible? I could not find reference to this in the installer boot options or in the install manual. I wish to install testing (Lenny).

Any assistance will be much appreciated!

Thanks!

Fred.

[Keith Edmunds-2]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:00:57 +0200, fred@... said:

> I wish to simply
> pop in a DVD and then complete the installation remotely via VNC or SSH.

Carry out an "expert" installation and select the "remote console" from
the list of additional modules to load. That may not be the exact text,
but it's similar. To start an expert installation, type "expert" at the
"boot:" prompt (there are other ways of getting there, but that's probably
the easiest).

Keith

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[ftclausen]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Keith Edmunds <kae@...> wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:00:57 +0200, fred@... said:

> I wish to simply
> pop in a DVD and then complete the installation remotely via VNC or SSH.

Carry out an "expert" installation and select the "remote console" from
the list of additional modules to load. That may not be the exact text,
but it's similar. To start an expert installation, type "expert" at the
"boot:" prompt (there are other ways of getting there, but that's probably
the easiest).

Thanks for the info, I will try this out. After sending this email I also found the following references :

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetworkConsole

But the "expert" option seems to be the easiest at the moment.

Thanks!

Fred.

[ftclausen]

Hi All,

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Friedrich Clausen <fred@...> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Keith Edmunds <kae@...> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:00:57 +0200, fred@... said:
>>
>> > I wish to simply
>> > pop in a DVD and then complete the installation remotely via VNC or SSH.
>>
>> Carry out an "expert" installation and select the "remote console" from
>> the list of additional modules to load. That may not be the exact text,
>> but it's similar. To start an expert installation, type "expert" at the
>> "boot:" prompt (there are other ways of getting there, but that's probably
>> the easiest).

I just wish to report success! It was quite easy and worked really well.

Cheers,

Fred.


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