How to install Ubuntu via text based method?

[joao2000]

With your help, I finally got VNC working and I'm connected from my Windows to a remote server with Linux, Xorg and KFCE. And now I'm looking at a text based interface that's in a window, instead of before when I was only looking at a text based command line.

Now, how do I install and run something like Ubuntu? Do I apt-get the webpage in which the tar image of Ubuntu is, and then install the file from the folder it's downloaded into?

I did a yum groupinstall gnome window environment thinking that that would give me the OS I was looking for, but when I type in startx, I just get

AttributeError: DBusException instance has no attribute '_dbus_error_name'

and when I copy that, I get:

waiting for X server to shut down Window manager warning: The application 'eggcups' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
Lost connection to the display ':0.0';
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the window manager.

(gnome-panel:1027: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnome-panel:1027: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed


xinit: unexpected signal 2.
[rootatservername ~]#

[Rubberman]

Remote installation of Linux from Windows is probably not possible. You will need to have physical access to the system in question first, then boot from an installation or Live CD/DVD/USB drive. Only if the remote system has been configured to use an ethernet or serial connection (instead of physical console) as the console device, would you be able to do this, and even then, you would have to work from a text-based command line, and not an X-Windows environment.