Re: [Sheflug] remote install

[Rob Andrews <rob [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:00, Denis Nikitin wrote:
> Is it possible to install linux on remote windows2000 server with VNC 
> access. Host is sitting on a good Internet connection.

No.

You might want to try asking a datacentre bod to pop a Fedora install CD
in, start the VNC install image and pop in the network settings. You
should be able to VNC into the box then and supervise a custom graphical
installation.

> I heard one can put BSD or Debian remotely on the machine which is 
> already running linux.

That's possible, I guess, but I don't know of any prewritten stuff to do
it for you.

dpkg and rpm support retargeting installation of packages, so I guess
you could mount a partition and just install the packages to that.

> But what about windows?

Remote install Windows? Very doubtful. I hear it can net-install these
days without usage of ghost, but I doubt you could remotely supervise
it.

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