auto/remote upgrade of the OS

[bruce]

hi Ruediger,

i saw the yum tutorial... i was/am of the believe that it should be possible
to do an update via yum, where the yum repos is local to my network, on an
ftp/nfs server...

if i already download the iso files for the upgrade, as well as any update
iso files, i could place these on my network, and attach them as i need.
this approach should allow the upgrade/update process to occur in a
reasonable manner.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ruediger Steffan [mailto:rue.steffan at googlemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 2:48 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: auto/remote upgrade of the OS


Hello Bruce,
there is a tutorial on fedorawiki about upgrading with yum, but it is
not recommended. I have a server which only can be accessed by a remote
console, so I tried to upgrade FC3 to FC4 and then further to FC5. The
upgrade to FC4 seemed to be OK, but there still remained FC3-Kernel and
programms. The upgrade to FC5 did not work because of unresolveable
dependencies.
There are some more tutorials in the web, how to remote-upgrade FC3, but
none of them worked on my server.
Has anyone another idea?
Greets
Ruediger



Am Freitag, den 04.08.2006, 06:50 -0700 schrieb bruce:
> hi...
>
> can someone point me to real/actual/reliable information on how to do a
> complete OS upgrade remotely.
>
> i have a box sitting at a location. i want to be able to completely
upgrade
> the OS without touching/seeing the box.
>
> how can i accomplish this? what tools do i need to do this?
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce
>