On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:
> 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. :-)
My mistake.. I forgot to snip that line.. That was actually something Pekka Savola
said.
Jag
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