On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:04:06PM +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <4B8D1650.1060001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Tom Georgoulias <tomg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03/02/2010 05:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > > > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to > > > do is, from the currently-running system, to invoke an installation > > > kernel and initrd in just the same way that GRUB would, giving it a boot > > > command line that specifies a remote kickstart file, installation tree, > > > and other required info. > > > > > If not, are there any other ways to achieve what I've described? > > > > I would use cobbler and koan for this. Once you have a cobbler server > > setup for the kickstart (which is super easy to do), you can use koan > > with the --replace-self and -k options and do exactly what you want. > > Can this be done even if I can't put the cobbler server on the same > network as the box I want to re-install? The information I found on > cobbler suggested to me that it was a tying together of DHCP, PXE, > kickstart and install tree. As I understand it, the DHCP and PXE/TFTP > servers have to be local, and also I have to have the box able to perform > a PXE boot. So if the box in question is remote and on a network that > I don't control or have any other boxes on, I suspect cobbler and koan > wouldn't work. > > I could well have misunderstood - I found very little detail about koan > apart from the command line options. Hi, Yes, It must be the same network/vlan. -- Dominik Zyla
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