Scott Leighton wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 9:39 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:06, David McMillan wrote:
Scott Leighton wrote:
I've done some googling on headless installs and have only been able to find references to SLES having that capability by using pxe and VNC.
Does anyone know whether or not it is possible to do a headless install of 9.3 Pro, and if so, where there might be a howto on the subject?
Or 9.1 Pro, if I may be forgiven for piggybacking....
Use remote administration in yast to configure server, and install rdesktop on client. Connect like you would in vnc, else use ssh for just the cammand line, and you can run yast in a terminal.
I can't see how that can possibly work. Enabling remote administration in Yast would require that the headless machine have SuSE installed on it so I could enable it.
I know how to remotely administer, what I don't know is how to remotely install a new install to a headless box that is 3000 miles away from me in a datacenter that I have no physical access to.
Are you saying that you place an order for a new box and the remote datacentre staff pull it off their shelf, plug it in and switch it on for you? Provided it has an operating system, a known IP and you can ssh or telnet in then your question seems to be "How does one replace the existing OS with SuSE 9.x? - from afar" N'est pas?
If I'm misunderstanding what you are suggesting, please do clear it up for me.
Scott