Matt Shields wrote:
I you have someone that can pop in a CD and type a couple words at the prompt, you could do remote install via VNC. I've done this before. Check out https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/x8664-multi-ins... Basically you type 'linux vnc' at the boot prompt.
Another option is to built your own CD/DVD with a built in kickstart file which has all the options you want, then in the boot options you specify it use the kickstart file. I'm trying to built one of these right now for remote installs at work. We have 80 nodes(w/ 4 servers) at 80 different datacenters around the world.
You can also use SystemImager - we use this for building out large numbers of servers: http://www.systemimager.org/
I'd bet the easiest for a single host if to just use yum and do incremental release updates until you get yourself to Centos 3.3
Andrew