well, the one with the spare drive you can install a chrooted environment and reboot into it. If there's no spare space in the other server, it gets a lot more tricky. If you were awfully clever you could boot into an initramfs system with network support & repartition the hard drive to make some space to do the same trick.
I've installed linux remotely (strictly speaking, I had physical access), but I've never tried to upgrade a distro remotely with removable media. Maybe someone else has more experience? Honestly, gentoo and debian are the only ones I could install easily in this situation (with a stage tarball or debootstrap). On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Jibz <[email protected]> wrote: > One server has and one doesnt... > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]>wrote: > >> is there a spare hard drive in those machines? >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Jibz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm trying to upgrade my remote server from RHEL 3 to RHEL 5. My problem >>> is that RHEL 5 DVD is with me and the servers are abroad. So i cannot insert >>> the media into the server. So i have to adapt another method. Can i copy the >>> contents of the DVD directly or as iso to the servers and do an upgrade?? If >>> so how??? >>> >>> Urgent. >>> >>> Jibs >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not >>> protect you." >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Daniel >> >> >> > > > -- > "The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not > protect you." > > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
