Newbie question abt network install

[Steven Stern]

On 10/25/2012 08:46 PM, vendor at billoblog.com wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the
> right one.
> 
> I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16.  I
> want to upgrade it to 17.  I did the yum-based preupgrade and such, but
> am stuck.  The instructions I read said to reboot and then choose
> upgrade at the boot screen.
> 
> Since this is a network machine that has no boot screen, I need to tell
> the box to upgrade in some other way.
> 
> Is there a way to to a yum upgrade over the network without seeing a
> boot screen?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> billo

On the VPS I use, there's an option to connection to "the console" from
the virtual control panel.  I can login to the CP and from there connect
to a virtual TTY.  I used it extensively when I was installing CentOS
there.

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-- Steve