boot disk with ssh

nielchiano · 04-17-2004, 06:40 AM

hi,

i'm looking for a boot disk (either floppy of CD) which boots up and starts an ssh server AUTOMATICALLY!

so I can insert the disk in a computer, boot it, and do the rest remote.

does it exists? how can it be done?

edit: maybe a telnet would also do... as long as I have remote shell access to run some commands (fdisk, mke2fs, mkreiserfs, tar, ...)

ugge · 04-17-2004, 07:36 AM

"and do the rest" ???
What do you want to do?
Install, configure, hack, format, blow up?

nielchiano · 04-17-2004, 08:07 AM

basically I have 2 identical computers, 1 is operational and locked up w/o keyb/screen. The other is installed and configured.

I want to move the config from machine 2 to machine 1. So I tar-ed it, put it on the disk of machine 1. I need to fdisk the drive, format (ext2 and reiser) and untar. that's it.

BTW: if you know how to do the blow up, let me know

ugge · 04-17-2004, 08:17 AM

There's a floppy bobmb explained in the Anarchist hand book.

nielchiano · 04-18-2004, 02:52 AM

comon, seriously, how do I boot with sshd?

ugge · 04-18-2004, 02:57 AM

I don't know a floppy dist that has sshd running from boot.
Have a look around for a suitable floppy dist. If you can't find a ready to run dist then you could modify the configuration for one that has sshd installed.

avantman42 · 04-21-2004, 07:48 AM

The Linux Rescue System Generator might do what you want:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxrescuegen/

It's designed to make a boot floppy/CD/whatever from a working system, but if both machines are identical, running it on machine 2 should presumably make a boot floppy/CD/whatever that you could use to boot machine 1.

It doesn't include SSH, but it does run a telnet server on startup.

Russ