Thanks Rob for the advice but we need redundancy and permanent solution. we can not always ship pre-installed harddrive to US it will take days and we can not bear downtime. anyways for us we are right now planning to buy asus boards with Asus-iKVM module for remote control the console even with that i can make changes in BIOS of the hardware it is like i am managing the hardware virtually from there. thanks anyways i appreciate your advice :)
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:10:40PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where >> hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us $4000K for a kind >> of setup we need therefore being a small company we decided to build >> our own hosting platform for our virtualized environment just for >> demoing our application to our customers and server will be reside in >> US office. now what is coming in my head is how will i install debian >> remotely. >> >> >> Since we have 1 technical resource their with almost no Linux >> experience so i think for just installing Debian squeeze i had to >> spoon feed him from very basic which i don't want. >> >> an idea comes in my head and how practical is it. that is where i >> need your advice. >> >> i am planning to create a bootable USB stick from Debian squeeze and >> then i will take the backup and send it to US office where he (our >> tech guy) just has to use clonzilla or any other image software to >> restore that data on another same space USB. and then has to boot the >> server from it. after all that i will definitly get (pre-configured) >> ssh console. i will further setup the local hard drives by he help of >> consoles. >> >> does it sound good. or i would face any issue in long term. if you >> think it is fine. then my question is how. i never done this before >> and easy to implement advice/suggestion will be highly appreciated if >> any. >> > Why not just configure a Debian system at your location, and then ship > the hard drive to be installed in the system at the remote location. > This typically works just fine, with the worst problems being things > like new names for your network device and cdrom (eth0 becomes eth1, > /dev/cdrom becomes /dev/cdrom2). But even that is preventable by > deleting certain files in /dev/udev/rules.d. > > -Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130325161053.gc13...@aurora.owens.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cagwvfmmgq+q8ohxbqnjwfjc2tcbcybtzekvo6knrmbfgvwk...@mail.gmail.com
