On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:01:31AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been scanning all available resources and not found anything, so > I'm turning here for help. > > I'd like to run the Debian installer from a command line. > The machine was booted from the network and is running Linux (not > necessarily Debian) from a RAM disk, so there's no need for UML, chroot, > or other ways of sandboxing the install. > However, the only way to access the machine is through SSH. No attached > console, no serial console. In other words, approaches that reboot the > machine to make the installer start won't work for me.
In that case, what you need is not debian-installer; rather, you'll be wanting debootstrap, which allows you to install the required packages to get the base system on a partition. Note that debootstrap does not take care of installing ssh, a bootloader, or anything else; that you have to do for yourself. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]