On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:56:06PM -0500, Jim Wildman wrote: > There are at least 3 ways to do this. > 1) Use something like Yum (http://dulug.duke.edu/yum) which will allow > you to do 'yum upgrade' > > 2) Buy licenses and use RedHat Network which will allow you to schedule > upgrades from a web interface. > > 3) Configure PXE boot so if the box is rebooted and a particular link is > in place it reinstalls, else boot from the local drive. > A fourth option, since you are upgrading from a working system, is to build a kickstart floppy or cd image that does the upgrade completely unattended correctly, then extract the kernel and initrd from the boot image, and install them into lilo. Then use the lilo -R option to set that image as the default for one boot, and reboot the machine, when it comes back up it will boot the upgrade image, upgrade itself, and then reboot to the new default kernel. -- Jason Kohles jkohles@xxxxxxxxxx Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting
