[WBEL-users] remote install? switch to debian?

[Steve Anderson]

If your boxes can handle PXE, then whitebox is great for remote installs.

It's a little finicky to set up, but one you have, you can script the
install so you can have a box set up within half an hour, and that's not
time you have to do anything in. Switch on, select the install option, walk
away. 


As for vnc, well, it supports it during installation. Drop in the boot disk
(or use PXE) and add vnc to the boot line.

http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/index.jsp?topic=/com.fultus.redhat.elin
ux3/manuals/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-3/ap-bootopts.html

If you've already got an X server, you can forward to that too.


Look at the bottom of the page.


Steve Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org]
On Behalf Of gregwm
Sent: 28 July 2004 14:29
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: [WBEL-users] remote install? switch to debian?

hi,

i'm wavering.  i intended to install whitebox.  but i really would like to
be able to do installs remotely.

we downloaded and burned knoppix3.4 just to get remote access, with the
intention of merely using it to install whitebox.  but anaconda doesn't seem
to be able to do a hd install via vnc.  am i wrong?  or is there another way
or another installer?

so now i'm wondering if i should actually jump ship and install debian. 
i've heard there are multiple installers, and i'd think it likely one might
do what i want.  the impression i've gotten is, while redhat became
everyman's distro, debian remains more a geeks distro, you can do more but
you have to know more and work harder.

so i guess i'm worried about entering unfamiliar territory.  yeah i'm comfy
with rpm and yum, but more to the point, documentation, and hardware, more
often seem to be aimed at redhat than other distros.

sincere apologies if i start a distro flamewar, that's not what i want, but
i would appreciate some good pointers to making a good decision here.

tia,
greg
--
gregory whitley mott
it coordinator
nonviolentpeaceforce.org

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