Thanks for responding, Scott! On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh >> server during the installation? > > > Yes - at least with the i386 and AMD64 installs > >> I'd like to be able to >> ssh/slogin/scp to the installation process so I can retrieve log >> files and otherwise snoop the process when the keyboard/mouse are >> frozen. >> >> This is part of my pursuit of Bug#728936, which renders it impossible >> to do a normal Sid CD-based installation of my PowerPC Macs, because >> the USB keyboard and mouse are not recognized. > > Perhaps not in that sense:- > ;you need to select ssh at beginning of the installation process (e.g. > in the graphical setup choose Advanced --> “Continue installation > remotely using SSH”) > ;I have no experience or knowledge of the PowerPC installer. The PowerPC install CD has a very minimal boot loader. Nothing like the flexibility that comes with grub on the x86/amd64 architecture. But, presumably, all the grub fancy stuff finally boils down to something that gets added to the boot command line and passed on to the loaded kernel/initrd. I have complete control of the keyboard up to, and including, adding parameters to the boot command line. But that's really all the flexibility I have (short of some kind of pre-seeding -- which I have no experience with, but would love to learn about!) After the CD boots, the keyboard is not usable. So the question is, Is there something I can do at the level of the boot command line that will pass to the installer a request to run an ssh server? Thanks! Rick PS: Is there a wiki page that tells about how to add pre-seeding to an otherwise normal installation from CD? I haven't searched (I will!) but if anybody has a pointer it might save me some time… Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/06042e62-03d1-429a-8c15-68c942774...@pobox.com
