Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

On 03/02/2010 05:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:

I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to do is, from the currently-running system, to invoke an installation kernel and initrd in just the same way that GRUB would, giving it a boot command line that specifies a remote kickstart file, installation tree, and other required info.

If not, are there any other ways to achieve what I've described?

I would use cobbler and koan for this. Once you have a cobbler server setup for the kickstart (which is super easy to do), you can use koan with the --replace-self and -k options and do exactly what you want.

Tom