Headless installation?

[Tim Wunder]

On 12/29/2004 12:42 PM, I believe that Michael Hipp wrote:

> 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.
> 

I read thru some kickstart info I found here:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/08/19/kickstart.html
Unfortunately, the article's instructions required having access to the boot 
prompt:
"At the boot: prompt, enter:
linux ks=http://build-server/kickstart/ks.cfg"

Access to the boot prompt seems to be required:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html
If I gotta plug in the monitor and keyboard to get a boot prompt from which 
to run kickstart, might as well just install it using the CDs.

A brief read-thru of FAI looks promising.

Thanks,
Tim