Headless installation?

[Michael Hipp]

Raymond Russell wrote:

> 
> On Dec 29, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
>> On 12/29/2004 8:34 AM, I believe that Tim Wunder wrote:
>>
>>> I doubt this is possible, but does anybody know if any of the 
>>> distro's available today allow for a headless install.
>>> Something like sticking a live CD in the machine, booting up, ssh'ing 
>>> to it (or browsing to it) and then installing it from there.
>>> Just curious. I imagine I'll have to dig out a keyboard and monitor 
>>> to do an install on my new harddrive.
> 
> RedHats Kickstart and Suse's Alice may be what your looking for.  I 
> remember Caldera
> having something similar to what you want.

Similarly, Debian has their FAI (fully automatic install) that should 
work. All these approaches basically require you to preconfigure the 
setup beforehand.

Michael