[K12OSN] Update from FC2 to FC5 via SSH?

[Dan Young]

Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:43:07 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote
>>> It is not a pipe dream, it can just be difficult and risky ;-)
>>>
>>> If you want to get *real* fancy, you can learn kickstart and do an
>>> unattended upgrade from remote.
>>>
>>> Docs:
>>>
>>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-
>>> guide/ch-kickstart2.html
>>>
>>> GUI front-end:
>>>
>>> 	system-config-kickstart
>>>
>>> -Eric
>> THanks Eric, I am reading the docs right now.  I think this would be 
>> awesome to have figured out in the future, it would really help me 
>> deploy K12LTSP in other towns where I am not readily available.  I 
>> can manage everything remotely other than Version upgrades at this point.
> 
> This all seems fairly simple, except I don't understand how to call on the
> kickstart file without a local media to boot from and issue the "linux
> ks=nfs:<server>:/<path>" command.  

PXE boot? You'd have to have the boot order set properly from the
console before doing this.

http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/PXE-Kickstart.html

-- 
Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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