Redhat install with PC as a terminal?

Redhat install with PC as a terminal?

[Ivan Fetch]

Hi,
   Forgive me if this has ben covered here before, but I am interested in
doing a Redhat 5.1 installation using a PC as a terminal - I have done
this with Slackware many times before by just running agetty from the
console after logging in as root, but Redhat installations seem to hide
more of the command line from their users; are totally menue driven all
the way through.

Any ideas on how to do this are greatly appreciated - Thank you for your
time.

Ivan Fetch

Re: Redhat install with PC as a terminal?

[wlestes]

>    Forgive me if this has ben covered here before, but I am interested in
> doing a Redhat 5.1 installation using a PC as a terminal - I have done
> this with Slackware many times before by just running agetty from the
> console after logging in as root, but Redhat installations seem to hide
> more of the command line from their users; are totally menue driven all
> the way through.

use kickstart is the first idea.

(i've seen some auto installing things for redhat but dont have urls
to hand. you might be ablee to find if the list archives on
www.redhat.com are working.)

--will

Re: Redhat install with PC as a terminal?

[Ivan Fetch]

Forgive me, wut what is kickstart (and who makes it)?
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 wlestes@wlestes.uncg.edu wrote:

> >    Forgive me if this has ben covered here before, but I am interested in
> > doing a Redhat 5.1 installation using a PC as a terminal - I have done
> > this with Slackware many times before by just running agetty from the
> > console after logging in as root, but Redhat installations seem to hide
> > more of the command line from their users; are totally menue driven all
> > the way through.
> 
> use kickstart is the first idea.
> 
> (i've seen some auto installing things for redhat but dont have urls
> to hand. you might be ablee to find if the list archives on
> www.redhat.com are working.)
> 
> --will
> 
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Re: Redhat install with PC as a terminal?

[wlestes]

> Forgive me, wut what is kickstart (and who makes it)?

kickstart is a program for doing installation of redhat linux--made by
redhat.

Re: Redhat install with PC as a terminal?

[John Covici]

You cannot do RedHat install using the PC as a terminal, but you might
be able to do the quikstart thing.  The first disk of the RedHat boot
disks is actually a DOS disk so you can read whats there to check out
what I am saying.  There is a hidden parameter at boot time and if you
enter it and give it the file name, (I forget how you give it the file
name), then it can install by itself, but I don't think this is very
satisfactory because there is no feedback at all.



-- 
         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: Redhat install with PC as a terminal?

[Jim O'Sullivan]

I tried to do this when I was installing redhat in August but with no
success.  I tried hacking the dos installation diskette but it was
beyond my limited ability.  I had to get someone to read the screen for
me while I was installing redhat.  
It is easy to install agetty after redhat is installed.  However,
agetty was not included in the redhat 5.1 distribution I had so I had
to copy it from my old slackware disk.
You can also just pretty much accept the defaults when installing
redhat and then configure things and load or remove packages when you
have your dos terminal up.

It is unfortunate that there is not an option to get the installation
on a terminal since it is text based and there should not be a problem
with this.  If anyone here has any influence in the redhat camp maybe
an approach could be made to them about this.

Jim

On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:28:03AM -0500, Ivan Fetch wrote:
> Hi,
>    Forgive me if this has ben covered here before, but I am interested in
> doing a Redhat 5.1 installation using a PC as a terminal - I have done
> this with Slackware many times before by just running agetty from the
> console after logging in as root, but Redhat installations seem to hide
> more of the command line from their users; are totally menue driven all
> the way through.
> 
> Any ideas on how to do this are greatly appreciated - Thank you for your
> time.
> 
> Ivan Fetch
> 
> 
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getting on the internet useing linux with a ppp account

[Nick Gawronski the chihuahua eater]

		   Hi, How can I get on the internet with redhat linux
useing a ppp account?  all so on my internet service their is a choice to
make to choose to log on as a ppp account or a shell account.  How would I
Nick Gawronski, e-mail nick@blkbox.com, ftp ftp.eskimo.com at the ftp
prompt type cd /u/n/nick6 to get my welcome message, web page
http://www.blkbox.com/~nick and irc server blindnet.ml.org:2020 on chanels
#computers my own chanel and #blindtalk where all of the blind people talk
tell the software that?  bye