On Friday 30 January 2004 07:26, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
It seems possible to do the installation using vnc. Never did this, so you need to look it up somewhere.
The relevant SuSE docs appear here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/12/remote_install.html
I think you missed the real point to the question and that is that the machine is -not- accessible should something go wrong. Unless there is a KVM with remote IP access I would not attempt this remote install.
Yes correct, thats the real issue here as the machine is hosted in Miami. While I would love to fly down for the weekend, especially this winter, its cost prohibitive....but I digress. I was hopping that someone on this list could share some experiences good or bad based on attempts. Such notes are invaluable. What seem logical to me is to create a small partition and install one of the variouse recovery distro's first and confirm it is bootable via the existing RH system. This would be used as an emergency recovery system as ssh is the only available service. Once this has been tested and confirmed functional, then a command line install using yast as described above the above reference could install SuSE over RH. This all of course would have to be tested in pilot prior to being attempted.