The only likely result I've seen from google, http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=541e07a7d1425c3dc2df69e6c48e0a52&showtopic=236207 , seems to imply that the install CD has an sshd on board, which a friendly NOC guy will cheerfully start. However it then goes on to say that the NOC guy has to be friendly enough to actually run through a bare install.
Has anybody tried this and can offer advice? Is it really as simple as booting CD, setting a root password, bringing up a network interface and sshd? How does one launch the installer from a shell prompt? http://fedora.redhat.com/ is depressingly lacking in docs, and I didn't notice anything in the RH9 manual about remote installs.
The other option is to use a chroot environment in the current OS to bootstrap a new installation, a la http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html . It's much longer and riskier than installing from a CD. But it may be preferable to asking my NOC guys to sit at the console hitting enter.
-- Pete
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