What about using a live CD distro that has a HDD
builtin feature like Kanotix ? You could boot from the
CD, connect with SSH (-X)and trigger the hdd install.

Hope this helps

Pierre
--- Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> I have an old P2 machine with Windows ME and I would
> like to install 
> Debian and use it as a file server on my network.
> However, I don't have 
> a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I would like to do a
> remote network 
> install of Debian to the point that I can ssh into
> the machine and use 
> apt to install the packages I want. In an ideal
> world, I would like to 
> download a iso image, burn a cd, put the CD in the
> target machine and 
> after some time ssh into a running Debian system.
> 
> I googled around and found
> 
> 1. This HOWTO 
>
(http://www.underhanded.org/papers/debian-conversion/remotedeb.html),
> 
> but the target system has to have some Linux distro
> installed.
> 
> 2. FAI 
>
(http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/index.html#contents)
> 
> This should work but I need to add nfs to my
> network, create a local 
> Debian package mirror, etc. It appears to be a long
> complicated process. 
> I was hopping to find a simpler solution.
> 
> Knoppix seems to be one solution that will get a
> Linux kernel running 
> with ssh. I am not sure how to proceed after I
> format the hard drive, 
> i.e. how to tell the "standard" net install process
> that I don't have a 
> monitor or keyboard or mouse and to send console
> messages vi ssh. 
> Perhaps there is a script based install that I can
> use?
> 
> If anyone has a suggestion or knows of an iso image
> that I can burn, put 
> in the drive, and end up with a running Debian
> system, I would love to 
> find out about it!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
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