[TriLUG] Ubuntu Dapper-Drake: Serial Console Install?

[Brian Weaver]

This hardware and I are destined not to be I guess. I got off my lazy
duff and put a monitor and keyboard on the system. Then I loaded the
Ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake DVD....

Speaking of which I found two version a 6.06-dvd-i386.iso and I
6.06-1-dvd-i386.iso. Anyone know the difference? I didn't hear
anything about a respin

... and when it booted it found all my hard drives in the wrong order.
I have a PCI IDE card in the system to support my Raid-1 data, 2 x 400
GB software raid. I have a 2 x 60 GB drives on the motherboard primary
IDE channel and 2 optical drives on the board's secondary channel.

I've been running this with Debian and I've booted off at least one
rescue disk. In both instances everything was on the devices I would
expect. The motherboard occupied hd[a-d] and the PCI card had hd[e-h].
Well with the Ubuntu install disk it was just the opposite!

I'm installing to 'hde' and I figure with it fails to boot I'll use
the rescue disk to modify the fstab to "correct" the bad installation.
Anyone had similar problems? Also, can anyone think of anything else
other than /etc/fstab that I'll have to fix?

-Brian

On 8/27/06, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:10:14PM -0400, Jim Tuttle wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone know if it's possible to install Ubuntu 6.06 "server" using a
> > > serial console session? I'm pretty sure I did this with Debian last
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > I just bought a Cobalt Qube which is headless and most of the initial
> > configuration, especially during install, must be done via the serial
> > port.  Instead, I'm going using chroot and debootstrap to build a base
> > system on my laptop running Ubuntu 6.06.  Then, I'll transfer that
> > system to the Qube via NFS.  There's a nice howto at
>
>
> Brian,
>
> Another alternative would be to use QEMU on another machine, do the
> install to some disk space reserved for qemu's use and then transfer
> that to the other machine ( perhaps with a live cd? ) using rsync, dd +
> ssh or possibly nfs, as described elsewhere.
>
>
> > Jim
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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