gentoo's guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml
debian's guide: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/426 -- a little less comprehensive Here's a quick rundown of the info Usual legal mumbo jumbo about me not accepting liability and such is here -- it's your own system, so don't do anything on it that you don't understand, or else deal with the repercussions. 1) format the target drive (i.e. mfks.ext3 /dev/hda2) 2) mount the drive (i.e. mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/newdistro) 3) copy in the initial target system (for gentoo: tar xf /some/place/local/stage3-lotsanumbers.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/newdistro for debian, debootstrap lenny /mnt/newdistro) 4) mount necessary filesystems mount -t proc proc /mnt/newdistro/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/newdistro/dev cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/newdistro/etc 5) chroot into the new environment (chroot /mnt/newdistro) 6) configure the new distro <<-- you're on your own here; this is described in great detail many other places. 7) add an entry to your bootloader to load the new distro (preferably also add a failsafe in case the new one doesn't boot... see man grub, man lilo, man syslinux, or whatever your loader of choice is) 8) reboot 9) enjoy! (or proceed to bash your head on the table if you forgot IDE drivers to the kernel and didn't add a failsafe to the bootloader... who *does* that??) On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Jibz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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." > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
