Hi Benjamin, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Our goal is to update a few hundred hosts at different customer's sites all over the country. We're hoping to not have to have any physical presence.
I've been looking at a program called FOG. One problem I'm seeing is that the bios of our target machines are not set up for PXE booting which FOG needs. I don't think the bios can be changed without physical presence. I could be wrong. Our target machines are Ubuntu 12.04 installations on a normal PC without any kind of out-of-band management provisions. They were initially set up at our factory. I'll keep looking at the possibility of creating a new partition in the target hosts and installing a lite OS, booting into the new OS (can it be done remotely?), installing Ubuntu 18.04 in the original partition, fix network and grub settings, and booting into the new 18.04 OS. Our targets are not on the internet so I'll have to create an Ubuntu repository with all the dependencies and make it available on the customer's networks. We have two things going for us: The target host hardware is all the same and they are configured all the same. And we have SSH access into all the targets. If you have any more thoughts, I'd appreciate any ideas! Thanks, Todd On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 2:04:49 PM UTC-5, Todd Sampson wrote: > > We have several remote target machines running Ubuntu 12.04. Is it > possible for Ansible to install Ubuntu 18.04 on the target machines from an > ISO? I'm trying to avoid an update to 14.04 and then 16.04 and then > 18.04. I'd like to avoid any updates at all and just do a fresh install of > 18.04. > > If it's possible, could you briefly tell me the procedure? > > Thanks! > Todd > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/153e708a-85e7-4fc0-b5e0-dbbc104efc0f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
