I installed few Debian Woody this summer, with a braille display and boot floppies tuned to run BRLTTY. You say "no kickstart stuff" and you're wrong, look for FAI, among others. It's not as easy as kickstart but it exists - Debian isn't as easy as redhat anyway. "Mitchell Smith" <mjs@datafast.net.au> writes: > Hi list, > > I just have a quick question about installing over a serial console. > > I am needing to get a Debian system up and running with out sighted > assistance. Now as Debian doesn't have any nice little toys like KickStart, > and I don't currently ahve a doubletalk or speakup compatible synth to hand, > I am wondering weather or not Debian can be installed via a serial console. > > I know the Debian installation system is very menu driven, and probably uses > dialog, or ncurses or something like that, so it may not be too accessible. > > Has anyone attempted to install Debian via a serial console before, and if > so how did you go about it, and did you run in to any problems along the > way? > > Any info greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Boris Daix "Feel free to be free, or not to be..."