On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:48, David C. Hart wrote: > I have never been terribly adept with kicker - nor am I sure that's what > I need anyway. > > I'd like to upgrade a few machines (RH9 -> Fedora). Is it possible to > configure something so that a reboot with a Fedora CD1 will > automatically run the upgrade without intervention? > > Thanks. Yep. I have not done it with fedora yet but the pieces are there since I did boot from the boot.iso image to do my install. We did about 30 upgrades in one night on machines that physical access was very difficult ( mounted under elevators) Acutally we did reinstalls but upgrades should work too. Basic steps we did was: setup an nfs export that could be accessed by the machines that contained the isos (actually this was using a single installation tree with all the dirs, but on my Fedora install two days ago I was able to simply point the install to the parent of the isos that was created during a bittorrent dl.) build a ks.cfg (kickstart) file that uses the nfs share as the location to install from copy the installation vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot set up lilo or whatever bootloader to boot to the install image passing the kickstart file location via append statement. run lilo -R install to tell it to boot once into the install image. shutdown -r now I have a script that sets up the machine for the kickstart by dling some files from an internal ftp server as well as a lilo.conf stanza that worked for us if you want me to send it off line to get you started. I am sure that the same thing can be accomplished with grub too. It is pretty off topic I suppose to be posted to the entire list. Here is also a kickstart-list at redhat.com where the real gurus hang out. Bret
