Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

In article 4B8D36F8.2070608@karan.org, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

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

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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

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

Try this ( or a process like this ) :

http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2005/06/15/

Make sure you test the line you end up using ( like in a local VM ) before you do this on the live machine.

The process works, I've used it many times in the past ( and about a dozen times in just the last 10 days ).

Excellent, thanks! Obvious once you've seen it. :-)

Cheers Tony