Server install tips?

[Alan Dayley]

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Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 19:36 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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>> Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>>> Alan Dayley wrote:
>>>> How do I do a non-graphical install when booting from a Kubuntu CD?
>>> On RH/Fedora you enter "linux text". I doubt it's the same on (K)Ubuntu.
>> The final answer here is to download the Ubuntu Server Install CD and
>> use it.  I was just trying to avoid downloading another CD.
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>> CD downloading now.
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> duh - remove one of the graphics cards...put it back in after install

Yes, good idea, Craig.  Except...

The one working port is on a remote admin add-in card.  The other is on
the main board and appears not to work at all.

The BIOS setup doesn't seem to have any effect on the boot issue.  I
have disabled one or the other and various other iterations of settings
to no avail.  If I remove the add-in card, I get no video.  So, I tried
that solution but am stuck with a confused X on boot of Kunbuntu,
OpenSUSE or Knoppix.  CentOS 4.3 handled it fine and can run a
workstation X on the add-in video.

Why change from CentOS then?  Well, a Debian based distro is preferred
for this box because the group that will share administration duties
wants it.  If I can't make it work, we can fall back to CentOS.

Alan

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