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6 Scroll down in the menu and instead of using GRUB select “ Install LILO boot loader on
a hard disk ”.
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In the “ LILO Installation target ” select: “/dev/hda: Master Boot Record”
The bootloader should detect the serial console. If it doesn’t then either.
a) pass additional parameters to the kernel (configure that using the main
installation menu)
or/and
b) when configuring LILO you should specify that it tells the kernel to use serial
console at speed 115200. In other words append
“text console=ttyS0,115200”
to the kernel options using LILO.
If the serial console wasn’t detected during installation, add the following line to
the LILO’s configuration file after the installation: “
serial=0,115200
”
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In the next screen, the installation should display the following:
LILO is configured to use serial port ttyS0 as the console. The serial port
speed is set to 115200.
9 Select “ Continue ”.
10 The “Finish the installation” screen should appear followed by “ Installation complete ”.
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The installation should eject the CD. Please remove the CD and close the tray.
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The system will reboot and after the BIOS phase you should see the kernel being
uncompressed.
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Now the installation has finished its “base” phase. The “Debian Configuration” screen
should appear. This is the phase where you select additional packages to be installed
and where they are going to be installed from.
Ensure that you install telnet and that the ssh packages get installed, so that you
can connect to your newly-installed system in the future (usually installed by
default). From this point on you should proceed as instructed by your Linux
distributor.
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After the whole installation has been completed, you will be able login to the system from
the serial console and/or to “ssh” on your V6100 (to create an SSH remote connection to
it) and to continue its post-installation configuring. You can use the boot media you have
created in order to install multiple V6100 stations.