auto/remote upgrade of the OS

[bruce]

hi...

can someone point me to real/actual/reliable information on how to do a
complete OS upgrade remotely.

i have a box sitting at a location. i want to be able to completely upgrade
the OS without touching/seeing the box.

how can i accomplish this? what tools do i need to do this?

thanks

-bruce

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> can someone point me to real/actual/reliable information on how to do a
> complete OS upgrade remotely.

do you have a serial console on the remote system or not?

what version are your starting with? what version are you going to?

is the bandwidth available on the remote system sufficient to feasibly do 
a network install?

joelja
> i have a box sitting at a location. i want to be able to completely upgrade
> the OS without touching/seeing the box.
>
> how can i accomplish this? what tools do i need to do this?
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce

[bruce]

hi joel...

my system/network..

i have FC3/FC4 systems.. i want to get to FC5
i have the FC5 isos on one of my boxes.
i can create/use either ftp/nfs

i have the bandwidth on my network..

i'm considering allowing a person who's a linux admin to be able to to
access my network, to do the installation, but he might not be familiar with
everything that's required, so i want to be able to help/aid him as
required...

-bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:25 AM
To: [e-mail]; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: auto/remote upgrade of the OS

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> can someone point me to real/actual/reliable information on how to do a
> complete OS upgrade remotely.

do you have a serial console on the remote system or not?

what version are your starting with? what version are you going to?

is the bandwidth available on the remote system sufficient to feasibly do
a network install?

joelja
> i have a box sitting at a location. i want to be able to completely

upgrade
> the OS without touching/seeing the box.
>
> how can i accomplish this? what tools do i need to do this?
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce

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[Ruediger Steffan]

Hello Bruce, 
there is a tutorial on fedorawiki about upgrading with yum, but it is
not recommended. I have a server which only can be accessed by a remote
console, so I tried to upgrade FC3 to FC4 and then further to FC5. The
upgrade to FC4 seemed to be OK, but there still remained FC3-Kernel and
programms. The upgrade to FC5 did not work because of unresolveable
dependencies. 
There are some more tutorials in the web, how to remote-upgrade FC3, but
none of them worked on my server. 
Has anyone another idea?
Greets
Ruediger

Am Freitag, den 04.08.2006, 06:50 -0700 schrieb bruce:
> hi...
>
> can someone point me to real/actual/reliable information on how to do a
> complete OS upgrade remotely.
>
> i have a box sitting at a location. i want to be able to completely upgrade
> the OS without touching/seeing the box.
>
> how can i accomplish this? what tools do i need to do this?
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce

[bruce]

hi Ruediger,

i saw the yum tutorial... i was/am of the believe that it should be possible
to do an update via yum, where the yum repos is local to my network, on an
ftp/nfs server...

if i already download the iso files for the upgrade, as well as any update
iso files, i could place these on my network, and attach them as i need.
this approach should allow the upgrade/update process to occur in a
reasonable manner.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruediger Steffan [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 2:48 PM
To: [e-mail]; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: auto/remote upgrade of the OS

Hello Bruce,
there is a tutorial on fedorawiki about upgrading with yum, but it is
not recommended. I have a server which only can be accessed by a remote
console, so I tried to upgrade FC3 to FC4 and then further to FC5. The
upgrade to FC4 seemed to be OK, but there still remained FC3-Kernel and
programms. The upgrade to FC5 did not work because of unresolveable
dependencies.
There are some more tutorials in the web, how to remote-upgrade FC3, but
none of them worked on my server.
Has anyone another idea?
Greets
Ruediger

Am Freitag, den 04.08.2006, 06:50 -0700 schrieb bruce:
> hi...
>
> can someone point me to real/actual/reliable information on how to do a
> complete OS upgrade remotely.
>
> i have a box sitting at a location. i want to be able to completely

upgrade
> the OS without touching/seeing the box.
>
> how can i accomplish this? what tools do i need to do this?
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce

[Ruediger Steffan]

Hello Bruce, 
finally I succeeded in remote-upgrading to FC5. The local repositories
of my provider did not work, so I updated FC3 from the repos of the
legacy-project, then removed the legacy-repository and followed the
update-faq, additionally I renamed some files, where a warning occurs,
rebooted with FC4-kernel via grub-commandline, upgraded to FC5 and in
the end edited menu.lst for the new FC5-kernel. 
greets
Ruediger

Am Sonntag, den 06.08.2006, 15:23 -0700 schrieb bruce:
> hi Ruediger,
>
> i saw the yum tutorial... i was/am of the believe that it should be possible
> to do an update via yum, where the yum repos is local to my network, on an
> ftp/nfs server...
>
> if i already download the iso files for the upgrade, as well as any update
> iso files, i could place these on my network, and attach them as i need.
> this approach should allow the upgrade/update process to occur in a
> reasonable manner.