installing remotely

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This is mostly correct. One suggestion:

Rather than ksdevice=eth0, use the mac address to be very certain telnet
will talk to the device you intend:

ksdevice=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

PS: The advice here references Fedora, none others.

Tom Moore writes:
> If my memory serves me right the instructions are:
> At the boot prompt once you put the cd in the drive type:
> Text telnet ksdev=/dev/eth0 ip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz netmask=www.xxx.yyy.zzz
> gateway=www.xxx.yyy.zzz
> /dev/eth0 being the first network card in the machine that Fedora detects.
> I believe you can use dhcp as well, but if you do that then you'll have to
> hunt around for the machine to see what ip it was given by the dhcp server
> so when I do an install like this I can always know where the machine is.
> 
> Tom
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> Subject: installing remotely
> 
> I've seen references on thist occasionally on either using telnet or a 
> "serial console" to install from another machine.  What do I type at the 
> first prompt to do this?
> I run an i r l p ham radio Linux box and have done four of these, but 
> always needed sighted help to do the initial install.  Once I get up and 
> running I can use my windows machine witha terminal program and winscp to 
> do what I need.  Hoping there is a way to do this without sighted help.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
> 
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