On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:40 +0100, Dan Track wrote: > Hi > > I've got an interesting problem. Basically I've installed a server (to > be honest its rhel 2.1), and I neglected to install any network tools. > I currently don't have physical access to it. I only have kvm access > to the console. Since I can't find any familiar network tools e.g > wget, ftp, ssh .telnet I'm at a loss as to how to download the > packages on to the server. Just to add the server does have network > connectivty. > > Does anybody have any smart ideas? > > Thanks in advance > Dan > If I understand correctly, you don't have network access to the machine, but you have some kind of remote kvm over IP thingy in place that allows you to "type" on the console? If this is the case and the drivers on the system have properly loaded for your network adapter, you should be able to 'up' the interface on the console: ifconfig eth0 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX This would get you on the network at least. In addition you can add the default gateway to /etc/sysconfig/network: GATEWAY=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX At that point, your machine should be pingable. If you don't have ssh started: service sshd start If you don't have ssh installed: up2date --install sshd At least that's how I remember RHEL 2.1 working. I hope this helps. Sean
