KingAdrock's Journal: Linux Network Install (No Monitor Blues...)

Hopefully someone out there can help me.

I have an extra box sitting next to me. Pretty decent specs, 2.1 GHz, 512 megs of ram. I'd like to put linux on it (preferrably fedora, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter) and use it as a server. The problem... No monitor (or keyboard for that matter). I think currently it has Mandrake installed on it, but just the default install. Would it be possible to install fresh on top of whatever is on there over the network or am I just dreaming?

I guess what I would prefer to do is put in some sort of boot CD that would then pull the ISO's off of my laptop that is sitting right next to it. Install it, and then let me do everything from remote desktop.

I don't do much in Linux, so go easy on any explinations you might give.

Thanks.

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Re:I don't know how their boot CDs work

[KingAdrock]

I'll probably take the step this weekend of actually plugging in the machine. I'm not sure if I'll even get by the BIOS with no keyboard. Or maybe I could just be a man and buy a monitor.