On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jag wrote:
> 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.
Good point. With a little bit of trickery, it seems it could be
done. Kickstart probably reboots after the upgrade is finished, too.
However, the only option there (for network install) seems to be NFS. At
least my version of it doesn't mention other installation methods such as
HTTP or FTP at all; usually, setting up an FTP/HTTP server is probably
more secure too (no need to run portmap + rpc.statd, etc. cruft).
But of course, the real beauty would be in an _attended_ live
upgrade.. like anaconda that could be run (with certain limitations) from
multiuser mode.
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