Installing over SSH

Installing openSUSE via ssh remotely

You must be able to make a connection from the local machine to the remote machine over ssh. Below the series of commands and things to do.

ssh -o "UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null" user@server
wget http://houghi.org/oSin

Edit the script if needed

sh oSin

edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to set the new entry as default

reboot the remote machine

Wait for a LONG time for the machine to be available again. This will depend on the speed of the machine and the speed of download.

ssh -X -o "UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null" root@server

Password is what you gave running the script

yast

At the end it will reboot.

ssh -X -o "UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null" root@server

Use the new password you have enterd in YaST

/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.ssh

Start configuring. The last step might be needed to repeat