installing dapper on serial console
Etienne Goyer
etienne.goyer at outlands.ca
Wed Apr 25 11:58:08 UTC 2007
Net installing would be my choice. I would also add that if your
hardware have a light-out manager (like most Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, etc
server do), you could probably get your machine's console output using
it, either through a serial or Ethernet port. Some of them even do ssh!
Ala Salman wrote:
>> Um, _what_ grub file? As I said, I didn't find a /boot/grub/manu.lst
> on
>> the CD image (ubuntu-6.06.1-server-i386.iso); nor was I able to figure
>> out how the CD generates the /boot/grub/menu.lst that it installs on
> the
>> HD. Is there some other grub file I should be looking for?
>
> I wouldn't know where the grub file lives in the boot cd, i have never
> looked.
>
> However, I can suggest you try to install via pxeboot/net install
> method.
>
> Setup a pxe boot server (check howtoforge.com for a very nice tutorial).
> After you are done, find this file: pxelinux.cfg/default and add
> console=ttyS2,115200n8 -- to the default boot stanza such that it looks
> like this:
>
> LABEL install
> kernel ubuntu-installer/i386/linux
> append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu-installer/i386/initrd.gz
> ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw console=ttyS2,115200n8 --
>
> Now when you boot your client machine, it will find the pxe server,
> start booting, and will throw everything to the console, provided that
> your console is ttyS2.
>
> That was all basically from memory, i hope i didn't miss anything :)
>
> -ala
>
>
>
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