Using preupgrade remotely over ssh

[Robert J. Berger]

On May 18, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Neal Becker wrote:

>
> I done several remote via nx.  You can do the d/l.  You still we  
> have to
> walk over to the machine to finish.
>
> Many years ago I admin a bunch of hpux boxes.  One nice thing was I  
> could
> update them all completely remotely.
>

Unfortunately I can't just walk over and finish the install. That's  
the whole point of my question. I have to drive 90 minutes to get to  
the servers and I don't want to do that. There are boxes (like Sun's)  
that have out of band management that allows this, but if preupgrade  
had a way to preconfigure the installer or had a way to automatically  
start up vnc for the boot process, then it could do it remotely.

Rob