[Gllug] Remote reinstall

[Xander Harkness]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:32, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Is there any way to install a red hat distro (eg 9 or 8) remotely on top of
> an old one (7.1), or can I do that with another distro when I have only got
> telnet access (though can root).
I have done this with up2date.

use up2date --nox --configure

change the version to the one you want and then run:

up2date -uf

I have down four or five like this successfully and one which required a
reboot as I forgot to do it using screen and my connection died.

Kind regards
Xander


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