[arch-general] Installing by remote control

[David Benfell]

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On 03/19/2013 03:13 PM, Christoph Vigano wrote:
> 
> IIRC, by requesting KVMoIP you will get a serial console attached
> to your server onto which you can logon and thus have access to a
> serial console to your server, allowing you to view the boot
> process, GRUB and stuff like that.
> 
> If you have this, you only have to boot into the USB install stick
> and install as you would usually do.
> 
> The main point is that you should have serial access to your server
> with KVMoIP :)
> 
Thanks! This sheds some light. Linode includes something like this
with all their VPS's--I forget what they call it, but it's definitely
there and good to have for when you've *really* *screwed* *up*. ;-)

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