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... 
>
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