> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Seann Clark > Sent: 15 April 2009 14:42 > To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. > Subject: Re: Install F10 on a machine that has no CD/DVD drive, i.e. > VPS > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:29 +0100, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > > > >> I'm sorry for the title. It is a challenge that I have at the > moment. > >> We > >> have some VPS(s) 6 in total, and I wish to upgrade the distro that > >> comes with them. They are currently running FC3 - which is umm... a > >> little older than I'm comfortable with. I do recall a few years back > >> that I managed to do something similar with debian, where I was able > >> to upgrade the distro running, to run a debian distro of my choice > >> following a guide online, and I recall I had to turn off swap, and > >> use chroot in the swap partition, something like that. > >> > > > > I've no idea what a VPS is, but if it can boot from a USB pendrive > > (thumbdrive, memory stick, whatever) then the procedure is fairly > > simple. Basically you install a copy of the Fedora Live CD on your > > pendrive, boot from it, check that your hardware works and when > > satisfied click the icon that says "Install". > > > > See > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-making- > media. > > html#id3163538 > > > > poc > > > > > If you can't get it to boot VIA USB, two ways that I can think of that > I have done before that could work, create an NFS mount, or drop it > into an http server directory, and PXE boot, or use a floppy disk to > generically boot it (I haven't done the floppy way in years, as I have > a PXE server). > > If you are doing a lot of them you could look into Cobbler, with is a > distro system (yum repo has it) and allows you to do the same thing and > is easier across a number of systems as you can do a mass build without > much admin overhead after the server is running initially. > > > ~Seann Seann - Thank you for your comments - I'll look into Cobbler - but for internal use. I am forever rebuilding servers in house and that would be a great solution. But as for a colo - these machines have public IPs, as in they are connected straight to the internet. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
