Hi. Is there a way to install centos over my actually debian or suse server like an autoinstaller script or rsync or nfs? I have no local access to the server so that the installation must be done over remote. If yes can anyone provide an faq or HowTo for a way to update my server to centos. Thanks Sven S.
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From: centos-admin@caosity.org [mailto:centos-admin@caosity.org] On Behalf Of Sven Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:10 PM To: centos@caosity.org Subject: [Centos] CentOS Remote Installation ? Importance: High
Hi.
Is there a way to install centos over my actually debian or suse server like an autoinstaller script or rsync or nfs?
I have no local access to the server so that the installation must be done over remote.
If yes can anyone provide an faq or HowTo for a way to update my server to centos.
Thanks Sven S.
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I have successfully upgraded MANY machines from Redhat 7.2/7.3 to CentOS by upgrading one release at a time. 7.2 to 7.3, then 7.3 to 8.0, 8.0 to 9.0, and then 9.0 to CentOS 3.3 I did all of these remotely, but I don't think I'd try moving from one distribution to another the same way.
Mike
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Sven wrote:
Is there a way to install centos over my actually debian or suse server like an autoinstaller script or rsync or nfs? I have no local access to the server so that the installation must be done over remote. If yes can anyone provide an faq or HowTo for a way to update my server to centos.
Thisapproach of doing a hot overwrite is essentially not readily attainable , as to the Debian install, and certainly not something which would be common enough to be well documented or tested.
It is possible to essentially do a chrooted install in a spare partition, and do the 'fixup' of the bootloader to 'dual boot' between the old and a new OS; I do so on a development box I maintain where it runs either caos-1 or Centos-33 on the same hard drive, (and of course, in the same chassis).
I have done recovery work where a person had overlaid RH over top of a Slackware install -- it was a real mess.
-- Russ herrold
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.
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
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