On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:15:13AM -0500, James Fait wrote: > > I recently received a new server system that has Centos 6.5 installed on it. > I would like to change that to a Scientific Linux 6.5 system without having > to do a full reinstall, as this has no external media access except for the > network. >
If your computer has a USB port (and can boot from USB), you can use my USB installer to do a vanilla or kickstart install SL6.5: http://trshare.triumf.ca/~olchansk/linux/SL65-64-USBBOOT/AAA-README-USBBOOT.txt (download tarball is two levels up). If you have infrastructure for network booting (dhcp+tftp+pxelinux), it is trivial to network-boot the SL6 installer and install over the network. (I find the speed of USB install and network install to be about the same). I personally recommend a reinstall to: a) avoid creating a mongrel system maybe hard to maintain long term, b) removes all doubt about "who knows what was running on the computer before you got it" and generally gives you a clean slate to work with. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
