[Gllug] Remote reinstall
Pete Ryland
pdr at pdr.cx
Tue Jun 24 14:51:16 UTC 2003
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:32:31PM +0100, 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).
As long as there's no BIOS password, I can't see anything stopping you doing
this in theory. Having a free partition or two, and using 'chroot' may
help. Just be careful to remember little things like rerunning lilo and
making sure you still have a network driver and such.
Pete
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