hmmm... i'll try that first with a testing pc. anyway this is so Out
of TOPIC already i was asking about kbd error in my original post.
On 4/21/05, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 at 5:56pm, Mark Quitoriano wrote
>
> > the problem is i don't have physical access to the server so i can
> > only upgrade it by apt-get.
> >
> That's not true. Grab the vmlinuz and initrd.img from images/pxeboot, put
> them in /boot, and put an entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf that looks
> something like this:
>
> title reinstall
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=hd:hda1:/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0 ip=$IPADDRESS dns=$DNS_SERVER
> initrd /boot/initrd.img
>
> Then, put a kickstart file in /, make that entry the default, and reboot
> the system. Wait a bit, and then ssh into the freshly installed system.
>
> Without physical access, obviously, test your ks.cfg file well.
>
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> Duke University
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