Remote Installation

[jodasi]

Hi there

Anyone has done a CentOS Remote installation?

The situation is the following:

Machine has 2 harddrives
1. for SO and dada
2. for the backups


I have installed CentOS 4 although Directadmin only support 3.4, so my idea is to reinstall the SO remotely, to a CentOS 3.4 change.

Has anyone made this kind of operation?

Any help is welcome

regards
jodasi

 

[nobaloney]

I'd ask in a CentOS forum or on a CentOS list.

I know it's not supported, and I doubt it's doable remotely.

Jeff

 

[jmstacey]

I know it's not supported, and I doubt it's doable remotely.

You never know till you ask. I found at that it's possible for reinstalling FreeBSD remotely, just modify the example script provided, recheck, and execute. Then try logging on in an hour or two crossing your finges that it did it right

 

[Webcart]

You never know till you ask. I found at that it's possible for reinstalling FreeBSD remotely, just modify the example script provided, recheck, and execute. Then try logging on in an hour or two crossing your finges that it did it right

Just wonder, what do you mean by "reinstalling FreeBSD remotely"? Is it like rebuilding 'world'? Or you mean making a fresh install with a different disk layout? Just curious.

 

[Webcart]

Hi there

Anyone has done a CentOS Remote installation?

The situation is the following:

Machine has 2 harddrives
1. for SO and dada
2. for the backups


I have installed CentOS 4 although Directadmin only support 3.4, so my idea is to reinstall the SO remotely, to a CentOS 3.4 change.

Has anyone made this kind of operation?

Any help is welcome

regards
jodasi

Your best bet would be using KVM/IP or serial port.

I know RedHat's Anakonda is intended to provide automatic installs and I would guess CentOS has something similar, but I wouldn't recommend it to novices.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[jmstacey]

Just wonder, what do you mean by "reinstalling FreeBSD remotely"? Is it like rebuilding 'world'? Or you mean making a fresh install with a different disk layout? Just curious.

Fresh install. You specify partitions, packages to install, startup applications, other configurations etc. that you would normally do during an installation but it automates it.
At least thats what I understood of it, however I never had a chance to actually try it out.
The folks in the FreeBSD irc chatroom were very helpful with input.

 

[Webcart]

Fresh install. You specify partitions, packages to install, startup applications, other configurations etc. that you would normally do during an installation but it automates it.
At least thats what I understood of it, however I never had a chance to actually try it out.
The folks in the FreeBSD irc chatroom were very helpful with input.

Thanks for the reply, it makes more sense now.

You can automatically install FreeBSD in non-interactive mode, i.e., without having to type anything during installation process. I wouldn't consider it re-installation, though, because you don't really need any OS installed to do that. You just need to inject config file to be used by autoinstaller to FreeBSD CD-ROM image and burn the disk and boot from it.