Hi Brady, I too am in need of a solution for this problem. I've got an XServe that lacks CDROM and a video card. I believe I can boot a cdrom through either a USB connected or firewire setup. Did you have any luck building a install CD with ssh enabled, a default root password, etc...?
I also lack a PPC machine to use catalyst on. I'll have one once I get the first machine built. I've been experimenting with qemu ppc64 but am having problems with garbled text when attempting to have qemu-system-ppc loads up the current Gentoo ppc install cdrom. It seems that qemu (x86) can load the x86 Gentoo install cdrom. My current solution is to find any GNU/Linux LiveCD/RescueCD that will pump an ip address, enable the ssh server, and allow access to the root account on some default password. Have you continued work on this problem? Have you had success? Found a solution? Thanks, Brandon Edens On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:52:49PM -0800, Brady Catherman wrote: > Is there a way to get the default cd to boot with a known root > password and start ssh automatically? Or is there an easier way to > install Gentoo on an XServe that doesn't have a video card? > -- > [email protected] mailing list >
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