Re: [Etherboot-discuss] server migration with gPXE
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From: Joseph L. C. <jc...@ac...> - 2011-03-06 03:26:36
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>I have been tasked with migrating a number of fedora 6 servers to centos 5.5. >The problem is I don't have any console access, usb key, cdrom or floppy. >So my question is, can still remotely install centos 5.5 on these servers using >gPXE without any of these options available? > >Thanks in advance, You don't need gPXE, you can add a grub entry that points to the kernel and initial ramdisk from the iso that you copy into /boot. Finally, add a ` ks=http://...` and possibly a `vnc vncpassword=...` to the kernel line in the grub stanza, set it to default, then reboot. Make sure you get it right:) I do this all the time in this scenario, it works fine. jlc |