On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, gregwm wrote: > my need is to do installs remotely. i fully intend to attend to them, > presumably using vnc, but the machine itself may be far away. with just > a knoppix cd i can get vnc control, partition, and download whatever i > want. but then to install, i'll need a cooperative installer.. debootstrap (see my other post) will let you do that fairly easily - it'll build a system onto the local disk. Here's directions on how to use debootstrap from Knoppix: http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html Note that you may want to use sarge instead of woody. I believe Gentoo can also be installed in a similar way; any Gentoo zealots want to speak up with instructions? -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list