[NBLUG/talk] Using Linux to manage a server

[Tim Preston]

Sounds interesting.

Can you edit a boot file (lilo, etc.) and do a reboot. You would lose 
your connection and have to re-connect. But as long as each of the OS's 
have a telnet/dial-up process loading at startup. You're in.

Else, run VM sessions. VMware works pretty good.

Tim

Cameron Tully-Smith wrote:
> The idea is to do some of what a KVM over IP setup would allow without
> extra hardware.  I'd have a DOS partition (to allow running utilities),
> Linux (active partition for the boot loader/a small Linux installation)
> and multiple other partitions (up to 2) that are bootable but not active.
> 
> The reason I'd like telnet or other remote access is to allow me to leave
> the machine on, restart it from a bootable partition and then be able to
> get to the machine remotely to pick another OS.
> 
> E Frank Ball said:
> 
>>On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:09:48AM -0800, Cameron Tully-Smith wrote: }
>>All,
>>}
>>} Has anyone had experience with booting a small Linux kernel and using
>>it } to redirect to a bootable partition?
>>
>>That's what a boot floppy does.
>>
>>
>>} I'm looking to (get this) remotely
>>} multiboot a machine to allow for telecommuting.  Linux could be the
>>main } OS and I'd want to go in (over telnet, SSH, etc.) from Windows (I
>>know) to } the Linux boot.
>>
>>Huh?  What?
>>
>>
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>>
>>   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com
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