Hi. Is there a way to install centos over my actually debian or suse server like an autoinstaller script or rsync or nfs? I have no local access to the server so that the installation must be done over remote. If yes can anyone provide an faq or HowTo for a way to update my server to centos. Thanks Sven S. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20041215/d3f5f08c/attachment.html>
________________________________ From: centos-admin at caosity.org [mailto:centos-admin at caosity.org] On Behalf Of Sven Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:10 PM To: centos at caosity.org Subject: [Centos] CentOS Remote Installation ? Importance: High Hi. Is there a way to install centos over my actually debian or suse server like an autoinstaller script or rsync or nfs? I have no local access to the server so that the installation must be done over remote. If yes can anyone provide an faq or HowTo for a way to update my server to centos. Thanks Sven S. ________________________________ I have successfully upgraded MANY machines from Redhat 7.2/7.3 to CentOS by upgrading one release at a time. 7.2 to 7.3, then 7.3 to 8.0, 8.0 to 9.0, and then 9.0 to CentOS 3.3 I did all of these remotely, but I don't think I'd try moving from one distribution to another the same way. Mike
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Sven wrote:> Is there a way to install centos over my actually debian or suse server like > an autoinstaller script or rsync or nfs? > I have no local access to the server so that the installation must be done > over remote. > If yes can anyone provide an faq or HowTo for a way to update my server to > centos.Thisapproach of doing a hot overwrite is essentially not readily attainable , as to the Debian install, and certainly not something which would be common enough to be well documented or tested. It is possible to essentially do a chrooted install in a spare partition, and do the 'fixup' of the bootloader to 'dual boot' between the old and a new OS; I do so on a development box I maintain where it runs either caos-1 or Centos-33 on the same hard drive, (and of course, in the same chassis). I have done recovery work where a person had overlaid RH over top of a Slackware install -- it was a real mess. -- Russ herrold