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labyrinth
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 Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject: remote gentoo installation via ssh? [solved] |
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Hey, I was wondering if it's possible to do a remote install of gentoo through ssh (or possibly other means) from my main gentoo box to this other old box that I'll use as an experimental server.
Right now, I have to ferry the mouse/keyboard/monitor plugs back and forth, and in my laziness (and interest in learning something), I'd like to be able to install gentoo remotely. I used to have it where I could ssh from either box to the other, but I wiped the old one to do a fresh install (just stage3--don't want the hassle for the old box) and I'm not sure if/when I could set up sshd on it without interfering with the installation process.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| When you have your shell on the LiveCD, just /etc/init.d/sshd start && passwd and then you will be able to acces the box for installation. I think it's explained in the Gentoo Handbook |
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ewan.paton
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:36 am Post subject: |
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might want to emerge screen then you dont have to stay connected during compiles
ot but how hard is it to remote install in other distros last time i sat at the desk to install gentoo on one machine was back in the 1.2 days
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johngalt
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Pretty easy.
See this page for alternative Install methods.
I used the Knoppix method to do an Gentoo install on my Desktop Workhorse so I could still have a graphical envirnoment to play / surf around in.
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Bob P
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| befortin wrote: | | When you have your shell on the LiveCD, just /etc/init.d/sshd start && passwd and then you will be able to acces the box for installation. I think it's explained in the Gentoo Handbook |
its amazing what kind of information is available in the manual, if people would only read it.
SSH is covered in the first sentence of the networking section of the Gentoo Installation Handbook.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap3
labrynth, could you mark this thread as [SOLVED]? thx.
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johngalt
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And folks wonder why RTFM ever got popular...
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wmgoree
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:50 am Post subject: screen, etc. |
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| ewan.paton wrote: | | might want to emerge screen then you dont have to stay connected during compiles |
And luckily screen is on the livecd. I know we can't cruft up the handbook with everything somebody might need to know but I've always thought a mention of screen would be helpful.
| Quote: | | ot but how hard is it to remote install in other distros last time i sat at the desk to install gentoo on one machine was back in the 1.2 days |
Debian's is pretty good (there's a running Debian system sitting on the other 5 virtual consoles from the installer program; ctl + alt + F2 and set up your remote install). RedHat/Fedora and SuSE don't have remote install capability so much as unattended install capability, which can be very nice in some circumstances...
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