100% network (remote) install -- No direct machine access?

Robert Citek rwcitek at alum.calberkeley.org
Sun Jan 2 17:20:21 UTC 2005


On Sunday, Jan 2, 2005, at 10:13 US/Central, S. W. Davison wrote:
> We would like to upgrade all the machines to RHEL 3, but we
> would like to make the upgrades entirely remotely controlled
> and entirely automated.

Yes, it is possible.  Here are my notes on upgrading a headless box 
(p166, 64 MB RAM, 2 GB HDD) from FC1 to FC3:

   http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?FedoraCore3#bootstrap_install

BTW, one thing that I have not been able to get working is a kickstart 
that creates an LVM on a machine with < 128 MB RAM.

Good luck and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert
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