Installing Ubuntu remotely?

[Kent Borg]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:37:27AM -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
> Im sure someone who has done it can tell you but,
> if you have a spare box, install on it from your
> working pc and see. 

Good point.

> Distance doenst matter.  Desire does.

Depends on how long ones arms are.

I can imagine copying disk contents a long distance, but is there a
way to actually run the installer, on a live machine, over ssh?  Or do
I not need to: just mess with the partitioning by hand, copy files,
and set tweak grub/menu.txt?


-kb, the Kent who finds the groady details of how a Linux box boots
easier to understand than the one-time mystery of what installers do.