hmmm... i'll try that first with a testing pc. anyway this is so Out of TOPIC already i was asking about kbd error in my original post. On 4/21/05, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 at 5:56pm, Mark Quitoriano wrote > > > the problem is i don't have physical access to the server so i can > > only upgrade it by apt-get. > > > That's not true. Grab the vmlinuz and initrd.img from images/pxeboot, put > them in /boot, and put an entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf that looks > something like this: > > title reinstall > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0 ip=$IPADDRESS dns=$DNS_SERVER > initrd /boot/initrd.img > > Then, put a kickstart file in /, make that entry the default, and reboot > the system. Wait a bit, and then ssh into the freshly installed system. > > Without physical access, obviously, test your ks.cfg file well. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA