Any way at all to do an independent install?

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hi all,

I realize that at present there is no formal accessible install process for Ubuntu, but I've been trying for some time to work out a way to get around this fact.  It would seem logical that there should be a way to do a completely hands free, unattended install.  I've been playing with preseed and kickstart, but I'm coming to the conclusion that by the time I  figure out  whether I can actually fully automate the process, I could have already gotten sighted assistance to do installs on 10 or more systems, grin.  The main issue I'm having is that the installer always seems to stop at some point or another, typically at the partitioning screen, even though I  explicitly tell it not to do so in my preseed and ks.cfg files.

Failing that, I was hoping to find a way to boot the install cd, and then telnet or ssh in from another machine.  Is it even possible to do so with the Debian installer?  If not, then I strongly feel that implementing such a feature would benefit remote administrators at large, as well as offer an accessible solution.  

After years of being a RedHat die hard, I'm seriously considering making the switch to Ubuntu; However, the apparent lack of any way whatsoever to do an independent install is probably one of the biggest cons in my book.

Thanks much for any help, thoughts or comments,

--Al
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