Install Hardy on a HEADLESS (no video, keyboard or mouse) system - ideas and/or hints

[Victor Padro]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have one last system to move to Ubuntu. My firewall which is currently
> > running Red Hat 7.3 (Valhalla).
> >
> > The system is a plain vanilla Dell Optiplex G1. As I said it is
> > headless, I do have physical access to the system so I could add the
> > devices for the install but it would not be convenient... is there any
> > way of doing the install without these devices?
>
> I don't think there's a way that doesn't use more gear.
> There's no 'upgrade' path from RH7.3 to Ubuntu that makes any sense.
> Either a real or virtual keyboard and display would be the easiest way.
> I'm not sure what your issue is in hooking them up (no room?)
>
> If you are feeling expermental (in other words, I dunno how much fun
> this would be)
> 1 - install ubuntu on a second machine that's roughly the same hardware
> 2 - free up some space on the target machine and repartition
> 3 - use tar and netcat or rsync or whatever you like to copy the
> ubuntu install onto the new partition
> 4 - add the ubuntu installation to the RH boot loader and reboot into
> the ubuntu install
> 5 - assuming 4 worked, remove the red hat install
>
> You have physical access, so as long as the default boot is still RH
> all you'd need is the reset switch to get back to RH
>
> If I had a choice I bet keyboard and video is faster....
>
> Brian
>
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I found this a long time ago, but it's referred to RH9 and CentOS perhaps
you could use some info about what you're up to.
http://www.crucialp.com/resources/tutorials/server-administration/centos/

But as being said the best way to upgrade is having a keyboard and a monitor
attached, even having a spare Server/PC in order to not break things up,
nevertheless you could use google, maybe someone achieved this before.

Cheers.

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