On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jag wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:
> >
> > I think Red Hat Linux definitely needs some tools to upgrade a live
> > system. The main reason for this is that you can do it remotely. I can't
> > see anything more annoying than having to walk through every Linux
> > workstation / server here and perform the upgrade w/ CD-ROM / bootdisk,
> > when I just as well could do it via SSH.
>
> You can do this with kickstart. On all your machines install the initrd
> and vmlinux from the net boot disk, add a lilo entry for reinstall that
> uses them and include an
> append="ks=nfs:nfs.server.domainname:/path/to/kickstartsconfigs" line
> for that entry. Then you can just reboot with that lilo entry. You can
> then ssh in, use 'lilo -R' to tell it to use your reinstall lilo entry,
> then reboot and the machine will automatically reboot and reinstall
> assuming you have the kickstarts setup properly. I've seen this sorta
> thing put into production and it works quite nicely.
>
I guess something got screwed up during the reply, because I certainly
didn't write those lines above. :-)
In any case, we're talking different things here. You're talking about an
upgrade that _necessarily_ implies a reboot. We're talking about an
upgrade of a live system such as the one that you can perform in FreeBSD
or Debian GNU/Linux. Not the same.
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