Headless dedicated server running FC1, how do I get FC2?

[Bill Williamson]

William Hooper wrote:
> Bill Williamson said:
>>Is there a supported or suggested upgrade procedure for people who don't
>>have physical access to their FC1 box
> Since the installer is a self contained disk image, it can be booted from
> grub:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg02978.html
> 
>>From there you could do a kickstart install or a VNC install.
> 
> "Safer" on the other hand is relative.  If something goes wrong during the
> you may be SOL.  If you have a second identical system locally you could
> test the upgrade on that and should be able to catch any issues.  Or
> upgrade a system locally and have your remote people swap them out.

This is interesting.  I don't have an identical box, but the grub flag 
to "try this once, go back to the original" flag (I'll have to research 
what it is, but I know it exists) combined with a VNC install might 
allow me some leeway if something goes wrong.

Once the disk images are officially released I'll give it a shot locally 
and report back!

Few questions:
-how do you tell the installer to use VNC using this method?  I won't be 
able to type it into the initial boot screen unfortunatly :)  I'll do 
some reading up on kickstart as well, but i'm guessing since my machines 
are completely different that method won't work.
-relating to that, is there an easy kickstart easy for "keep everything 
the same, just upgrade me?"  I know when you install/upgrade it saves 
your kickstart file to do the same thing, but like I said I don't have 
access to an identical system.
-from looking at this, do all of the disk images need to be in /boot, or 
just the boot image?


Thanks for all the help!
--Bill