[ale] Headless, Consoleless, DVDless, NetInstall? was: Fedora NetInstall via USB Drive

[Richard Bronosky]

Okay, I'm pretty impressed with the level of expertise I've seen. I
figure I might as well try this pipe dream out on y'all.

I have a bunch of servers hosted with Peer1 "Managed*" Hosting. They
do not give console access, so installing my own OS, setting up LVM,
etc. requires that I pay them to do it for me. Once I have them
install said OS, I have full control over it, but only via SSH - no
console. It sounds to me like, as I add servers I ought to be able to
take their bulky default LAMP stack they give for free. Drop a few
things in carefully chosen places. Reboot. Ideally, I'd like the
install process to start sshd very early so that I can handle
exceptions or install interactively. I [loosely] understand the
kickstart concept, but since this is a server that I have no physical
access to, I'd like SSH access early.

Is this doable?

* Managed = They try to reboot my server whenever they don't
understand what I'm doing (Xen) with it.

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