Hi David,
I have done that but not total likely your specs.
I have got a Fedora 3 box remotely (at the US :) would like to upgrade to
CentOS-5. I have done that:
1. Backup all data and configuration files to the secondary HDD
2. Reinstall CentOS-5 over Fedora 3 remotely using VNC (quite easy)
3. Reconfigure all applications and services and restore all data back
(of course I have to test all my apps to make sure they are fully compatible
with the new environments).
Hope this helps.
Let me know if you need more information.
Kind regards,
Tuan
----- Original Message ----
From: David Tremblay <[email protected]>
To: Hanoi Linux Users Group <hanoilug at lists.hanoilug.org>
Sent: Monday, May 5, 2008 12:08:26 PM
Subject: [HanoiLUG] Installing a remote system, any experience ?
Dear Hanoiluger
?Have you ever installed an OS remotely ?
The example is I have this server already running on the internet.
However I want to move it to a virtualized architecture. On the server I
have a second hard drive. I would like to make a complete install the on
this second hard drive, create a virtualized architecture, then move the
applications to the new system, restart the server so it boots on the
new one, with everything finger crossed, working.
I know it is possible with chroot and debootstrap, what I'm missing is
concrete experiences
What is the overhead of doing that, how do you evaluate the possibility
of failure / success, what are the pitfalls etc etc.
Any experience from you is good.
Thanks in advance
David
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