Re: ks] Re: hands-off upgrade

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do you know the steps to get that done or a place that would have some
documentation on it?

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 15:52, R P Herrold wrote:
> On 18 Apr 2003, Richard Wilson wrote:
> 
> > I am unable to get my system to go out to the need system for the cfg
> > file. I do the following changes to grub.conf
> > title Red Hat Linux Upgrade
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /pxeboot/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/
> >         initrd /pxeboot/initrd.img
> >         append ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 \
> > 		ramdisk_size=32768 network ks=http://15.8.27.142/ks.cfg
> > the do 
> >  grub-install /dev/sda1
> >  and reboot and the system boots off the kernel but does not get any of
> > the append info..? any Ideas?
> 
> > > #	note that the foregoing line uses backslash 
> > > #	continuation only for clarity -- don't use them 
> > > #	in production -- string the darn thing out ...
> 
> It comes to mind that there is not really a need to pull the
> ks.cfg across the lan in your instance, and that a failure to
> successfully bring the network device up may be masking
> things.  It should be possible to pre-stage it on the host to
> be upgraded, in the initrd, and to source it there.
> 
> -- Russ Herrold
> 
> 
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