[K12OSN] Update from FC2 to FC5 via SSH?

[Eric Harrison]

Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:23:29 -0700, Huck wrote
>> mail cd's to the locations and walk them through it over the phone 
>> Jim ;)
> 
> The drive is actually only about 5 minutes from my house.  It isn't a problem
> for me to go there and install with CD's.  I was simply using this as a test
> bed for the future.  As I forsee within the next year having servers that are
> a few hours away.  Now I know that I need to plan to drive to update them.  I
> was hoping for a solution I could script to run from a single location once
> every summer within the comfort of my home.  Turns out that was a pipe dream.
> 


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