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

Brian Weaver cmdrclueless at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 14:56:10 EDT 2006


Woody,

I have one word for you.... "Troll".... The question is am I refering
to your comment or visage? ;-)

-Weave

On 8/29/06, Douglas Hardison <dhardison at grapeape.org> wrote:
> 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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> >>
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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
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