On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:42:48PM -0500, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: >On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > >> Is there a way I can remotely whack the redhat install, and get a base >> debian installed and rebooted? This would make my life so much easier. If thiers a spare partition think "chroot" :-) > >I think you can, I'm just not sure what the best route would be. I need >to look at the Deb net install stuff, but I think you'd be cut off from >the box. There's the autoinstall thing (or whatever they call it), or >maybe you could program a boot disk to boot a kernel and give you net >access. Maybe there's a monkey on site that could insert disk a into >slot b? You'd want to test that at "home" before killing a machine you're >trying to avoid flying to visit! > >I'm also not 100% sure you couldn't do it on top of your running >RH kernel and then just reboot, nutty as that may sound. > >I'll go think for a minute... > > -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) $chown -R us.us yourbase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010403/ef40d946/attachment.pgp