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

[Douglas Hardison]

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:

>I'm a gentoo fanatic ...and have been using it pretty much since they've
>been around. I try to keep an open mind, but its hard... very hard... 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>Behalf Of Douglas Hardison
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:42 PM
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Ubuntu Dapper-Drake: Serial Console Install?
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>Brian Weaver wrote:
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>>Rick,
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>-Brian
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>>On 8/29/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>On 8/26/06, Brian Weaver <cmdrclueless at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>Is the serial port the only connection to this machine?  You're going
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>>>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 ;-)
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>-- dhardison
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Oh, yeah. I used Gentoo for a long while. I'm not really a fanatic for 
anything, anymore.
I've got Fedora, CentOS and SuSE 10 installed at the moment. I'd deem 
SuSE my favorite, for now anyway.

I'm just trying to "get a rise" out of Weave. It's good for him; keeps 
his blood pressure level.


-- dhardison