Re: CentOS 5 or Ubuntu 6.06 for remote desktop?

[Derek Agar <derekagar@yahoo.com>]

Thanks guys for your help.
I found out an option "upgradeany" to force a cd
upgrade.
Still sorting through some dependancy issues though.
Derek

--- "Blunier, Mark" <Mark.Blunier@aventinerei.com>
wrote:

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> > Subject: Re: CentOS 5 or Ubuntu 6.06 for remote
> desktop?
> > 
> > 
> > Steve,
> > Do you or anyone else know of a good easy backup
> tool
> > to where I could ssh into the remote box and
> backup
> > the whole HD and then easily extract that onto an
> > identical machine here to test?
> > Derek
> 
> I've made backups of system with everything on one
> partition by
> booting up knoppix on the machine I wan't
> to copy to, partition the hard drive, make the file
> systems,
> mount the file system (on /mnt/mnt), cd to the file
> system
> (cd /mnt), the copy everything over except /proc,
> /sys, and
> /tmp.
> 
> ssh root@<source machine> "tar -zpcO / --exclude
> /proc --exclude /sys --exclude /tmp" | tar -zpxv
> 
> Then
> mkdir -m=777 tmp
> mkdir proc sys
> 
> 
> If you have multiple partitions you could do
> something similar for
> all fo the partitions.  If you already have a system
> installed,
> you wouldn't need to knoppix.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> > 
> > --- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:52:51AM -0800, Derek
> Agar
> > > wrote:
> > > > I have a remote user in Lafayette that I am
> going
> > > to
> > > > visit Thursday.  His computer is at fedora 5. 
> I
> > > am
> > > > wondering what would be a better way to go
> either
> > > to
> > > > move him to centos 5.1 or Ubuntu 6.06?
> > > 
> > > Upgrading an older Fedora to CentOS is fairly
> > > painless.  You *might*
> > > just be able to do the upgrade from the CD/DVD. 
> If
> > > not, remove the
> > > fedora-release package ("rpm -e fedora-release
> > > --nodeps") and replace it
> > > with the centos-release package first, then try
> the
> > > upgrade from CD/DVD.
> > > (I've done it before with yum.)
> > > 
> > > With the EPEL repo
> > > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) getting
> closer
> > > to being complete, running CentOS 5 + EPEL 5
> isn't
> > > much different than
> > > running Fedora Core/Extras 6.
> > > 
> > > Steve
> > > -- 
> > > steve@silug.org           | Southern Illinois
> Linux
> > > Users Group
> > > (618)624-4440             | See web site for
> meeting
> > > details.
> > > Steven Pritchard          |
> http://www.silug.org/
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >       
> >
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