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

[Douglas Hardison]

Brian Weaver wrote:

> Rick,
>
> It's not an issue any longer since I ran into a bigger issue with
> Ubuntu 6.06; at least from my perspective. I've abandoned running
> Ubuntu on my server and I'm just going to continue running Sarge until
> Etch become the stable release from Debian. Hopefully Etch will not
> suffer from the same udev problem that Dapper Drake has when there is
> an extra IDE controller on the PCI bus.
>
> -Brian
>
> On 8/29/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/26/06, Brian Weaver <cmdrclueless at gmail.com> 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
>> > time, but I haven't yet tried it with Ubuntu. I was going to install
>> > Ubuntu on a system that is headless and I'm really to lazy attach one
>> > if I don't need to.
>> >
>> > Has the serial port become so out dated? I ask this because I had to
>> > build myself a special respin of a rescue cd
>> > (http://www.sysresccd.org/) just to get serial support for my headless
>> > server.
>>
>> I haven't tried this myself, but I remember looking at a script called
>> debtakeover which could probably be modifed to install ubuntu instead
>> of deb stable or one of the debian releases.
>>
>> Is the serial port the only connection to this machine?  You're going
>> to need some way to get the packages.  If you've got tcp why not use
>> ssh or shudder telnet to get into it?  If not, what kind of server are
>> you building?
>>
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>
Hmm. There's your problem - Debian.
I thought better of you, Weave!
Anyone will tell you Gentoo is the way to go ;-)

-- dhardison