That would be one hell of a null modem cable. He stated earier the remote box is about 3000 miles away! SteveC

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John Scott 05/29/05 3:24 am >>> On 5/28/05, John Scott wrote: On 5/25/05, Ken Schneider wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 18:20 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:

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Thanks to Ken, Stephen and Jerry for the useful pointers.

I'm probably worrying needlessly here and the install will go fine using VNC. The only humans on the other side will be IT guys that are 100% windows oriented, but I should be able to get them to mount the DVD and type the neccessary commands to get me going with a VNC install.

I was hoping not to have to involve them, don't want to give them any reasons to dislike Linux and certainly don't want my incompetence on display if there are problems with the install <g>.

It's a few months away, but I'll report back on my success or failure.

Thanks again!

Scott

There should not be any reason to hate linux but admire it for being able to install remotely. Not sure if MS can do that.

-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Have you though about doing a serial port connection form another box (we'll call it server1) that is up and running , via null modem cable, and redirecting the box to be installed (we'll call it server2) output to server1 via the null modem cable?

Below are a few links that might get you started.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/index.html http://www.cpqlinux.com/serialinstall.html http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/TrinityOS/cHTML/TrinityOS-c-55.ht... http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2002-July/007641.html

John

I forgot to state that you could then ssh to server1 and control server2 over the null modem connection. In effect server1 has become a cheap console server. This still requires some human interaction at the other end. Someone will need to either type in some commands or you'll need to create a custom boot disk with the correct arguments that this person boots the server from. Not quite the same as getting true bios level control, but it will let you install. John -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com