Re: Headless dedicated server running FC1, how do I get FC2?

William Hooper wrote:

Bill Williamson said:

Is there a supported or suggested upgrade procedure for people who don't
have physical access to their FC1 box

Since the installer is a self contained disk image, it can be booted from
grub:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg02978.html

From there you could do a kickstart install or a VNC install.

"Safer" on the other hand is relative.  If something goes wrong during the
you may be SOL.  If you have a second identical system locally you could
test the upgrade on that and should be able to catch any issues.  Or
upgrade a system locally and have your remote people swap them out.

This is interesting. I don't have an identical box, but the grub flag to "try this once, go back to the original" flag (I'll have to research what it is, but I know it exists) combined with a VNC install might allow me some leeway if something goes wrong.

Once the disk images are officially released I'll give it a shot locally and report back!

Few questions:
-how do you tell the installer to use VNC using this method? I won't be able to type it into the initial boot screen unfortunatly :) I'll do some reading up on kickstart as well, but i'm guessing since my machines are completely different that method won't work.
-relating to that, is there an easy kickstart easy for "keep everything the same, just upgrade me?" I know when you install/upgrade it saves your kickstart file to do the same thing, but like I said I don't have access to an identical system.
-from looking at this, do all of the disk images need to be in /boot, or just the boot image?

Thanks for all the help!
--Bill