{"id":1357,"date":"2008-11-16T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T21:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2015-05-23T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T16:27:14","slug":"debian-installation-over-ssh-lenny-rc1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/debian-installation-over-ssh-lenny-rc1\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian Installation Over SSH (Lenny RC1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 was released on November 12th<\/a>, which inspired me to check it out and give the installation over ssh a try. Installation over ssh has been supported since the Etch installer, but I embarrassingly have to admit that I didn’t know about it until just recently, and it was just last month that I tried it out for the first time. So this post is more of a “Look, this thing exists and is neat and easy!” than a formal how-to for something tricky.<\/p>\n

The screenshots and CD I burned were from Lenny (Testing) which I downloaded here<\/a> this morning, but this is also supported in Debian Etch in a similar way.<\/p>\n

Boot from the CD and in the Installer boot menu select “Advanced options >”<\/p>\n

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Then select “Expert install”<\/p>\n

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The installer will load up and you will be presented with the Debian installer main menu.<\/p>\n

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Since the default language and keyboard are fine to get me going (I can reconfigure them later once I get this going over ssh), I skipped these and went straight for “Detect and mount CD-ROM”. When it asked me if I wanted to Start PC card services<\/a> I selected “No” since I’m not using any PCMCIA cards.<\/p>\n

The next option on the menu is “Load installer components from CD”, which you want to select. Browse the list, but for my basic needs the only thing I needed to load up was “network-console: Continue installation remotely using SSH”<\/p>\n

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Now you’ll need to get networking going. Select “Detect network hardware” and then “Configure the network”.<\/p>\n

Next you want to “Continue installation remotely using SSH”<\/p>\n

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This will generate SSH host keys and have you set a remote installation password. Once it has these set up you will be presented with a screen giving you an installer@ipaddress location for the install and an SSH fingerprint. Use these to ssh into the installer!<\/p>\n

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Finally – log in from your remote PC and complete the installation.<\/p>\n

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I went back and configured keyboard to confirm it was correct and languages so I could add a couple of locales, so don’t forget to do this if you need to change something about your configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 was released on November 12th, which inspired me to check it out and give the installation over ssh a try. Installation over ssh has been supported since the Etch installer, but I embarrassingly have to admit that I didn’t know about it until just recently, and it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-plug","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10366,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/10366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}