-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pierre Fortin wrote: | On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:25:56 -0400 "Brian J. Murrell" | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |>On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:09:35PM -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: |> |>>Something like this from May of last year: |>>http://pfortin.com/Linux/live_install.html |> |>Bingo!! |> |> |>>T'would be NICE!! :^) |> |>Wouldn't it though? | | | Amen... I didn't have much time to mess with it last year, and am still | quite busy (in retirement -- go figure!) But, the screen shot was the | result of playing with the actual scripts... in fact, there was no added | code; just a few calls deleted... quite simple as far as I got... |
I tried this once during beta of 8.1 I think (since I was probably going to trash the installation later anyway), but it didn't quite work too well. From what I remember, the only thing you needed to do was add some paths to $PATH | I ***hate*** rebooting, which is another reason I haven't done much with | cooker... but if I can find an extra machine, I'd love to work on this... | | | It's only part of the problem I'd like to see addressed... another is the | ability to migrate most of the current config data to the new install... | kinda like a "full-install *upgrade*" with downtime for only the reboot. | I saw a question on mandrakeexpert asking wheter it would be possible to remote-upgrade Redhat 6.2 to Mandrake 8.2 on a co-hosted box, with minimal interaction from the cohoster (insert CD or cold-reboot the machine). If this could be run from a network script (ie mirroring only the Mandrake/base directory, then starting up DrakX), it would be really cool. Especially if there were some url like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/live-install (to run from lynx as root), even more especially if this script could detect what OS it was, and even start installation from windows! Of course, there are security issues involved, how would one securely run X across the network. Maybe it could start sshd (user generates a key and makes a new kernel image with the key in initrd.img?) and wait for a connection, and set root's shell to start DrakX? Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE8usPcrJK6UGDSBKcRArEhAJ9bG1sODn1x70e/GBHTUISXwbGcGACglkRA hAKiIdPZmcNkcnH91EwhLa4= =xuQY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
