[gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Marco Calviani]

Hi list,
   i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Alexander Skwar]

Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
> gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?

I'm not quite sure what you mean with that.

I installed Gentoo on my server. To do so, I first booted a
"rescue system" which was loaded over a netboot. After the
boot, I logged into the server using SSH and followed the
documentation.

Does that answer your question?

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AW: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[patrizius]

I installed Gentoo on two remote machines using ssh, because I didn't want
to freeze to death in the server room. Also the noise pollution there is
tremendous, because of all the fans and the SCSI hdds. So I decided to
perform the actual installation process from somewhere else. And it worked
perfectly! I just booted both machines using the gentoo live cd, and started
the ssh servers. 
You can do just about anything via ssh. Plus, you don't have to sit there
and wait while the system is compiling or downloading, since you can just
minimize the console window and keep on working/surfing/playing.

Is this like what you want to do?

Greetings,
Patrizius



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Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
> gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?

I'm not quite sure what you mean with that.

I installed Gentoo on my server. To do so, I first booted a
"rescue system" which was loaded over a netboot. After the
boot, I logged into the server using SSH and followed the
documentation.

Does that answer your question?

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> Marco Calviani wrote:
> >Hi list,
> >   i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
> >gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean with that.

IFAIU Marco wants to log into some linux box via ssh and install 
gentoo there (over the existing system).

Well, interesting question. I'm also planning to do this.
As long as you do not have any backup remote access (ie. directly
to the disk or filesystem, an backup os, ...) its gonna be risky.
This would require the install to go 100% right (at least to the
point where network + sshd is up).

I'd suggest installing gentoo in an chroot jail and try out
evrything, move ssh to another port and run all services
(including gentoo's ssh) within the jail. 

If evrything's proved to be running, change into the jail, cleanup
the root system (you can access it via bind-mounts) and copy
down the whole thing.


cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Steven Susbauer]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Marco Calviani wrote:

> Hi list,
>   i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
> gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> MC
>
>

Boot from the minimal cd. Start ssh by typing /etc/init.d/sshd start, set
a root password with passwd. Make sure your network is up, if it is you're
now able to install over ssh.

-Steven
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Re: AW: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Steven Susbauer]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, patrizius wrote:

> You can do just about anything via ssh. Plus, you don't have to sit there
> and wait while the system is compiling or downloading, since you can just
> minimize the console window and keep on working/surfing/playing.
>
> Is this like what you want to do?
>
> Greetings,
> Patrizius

If you use screen, you don't even have to keep the SSH session connected.
It's on the cd...
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Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 5/22/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
> gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> MC
>
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>
>

You can do that, if you have some experience, you can use the actual
system already installed, but you must use fallback instructions on
your bootloader, along with PANIC instructions to reboot if no
successful kernel is booted. Also, you must be SURE that IF your new
kernel boot, it will support your NIC, and also that SSH gets started
with the system.

There is really NO way to securely say you'll suceed, anyway, you must
have another way to access the machine locally if anything goes wrong.
Besides any failure, its possible, I've used it like 3 times, only one
I had to go there and reboot the machine...

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Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Enrico,
  actually it is the way i would like to do it. I have a debian box
installed on it, but i would like to move to gentoo. The machine is
quite far from me and i don't have easy access to the room. Probably
the chroot solution is the best for me.

Regards,
and thanks to all,
Marco

On 5/22/06, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> > Marco Calviani wrote:
> > >Hi list,
> > >   i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
> > >gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean with that.
>
> IFAIU Marco wants to log into some linux box via ssh and install
> gentoo there (over the existing system).
>
> Well, interesting question. I'm also planning to do this.
> As long as you do not have any backup remote access (ie. directly
> to the disk or filesystem, an backup os, ...) its gonna be risky.
> This would require the install to go 100% right (at least to the
> point where network + sshd is up).
>
> I'd suggest installing gentoo in an chroot jail and try out
> evrything, move ssh to another port and run all services
> (including gentoo's ssh) within the jail.
>
> If evrything's proved to be running, change into the jail, cleanup
> the root system (you can access it via bind-mounts) and copy
> down the whole thing.
>
>
> cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

[Ryan Tandy]

Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi list,
>   i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing
> gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> MC
> 

I've done it a couple of times for friends.  It goes fine - you just 
have to make sure someone's physically near the machine when you do its 
first non-assisted boot, in case you screwed up the kernel or something. 
And don't forget to 'rc-update add sshd default' so you can get back in!
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