Can u gimme steps on how to do it with a chrooted env? On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > > > -- "The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
