goudkov.com — How to completely change your distribution on a remote box without a boot disk, with only ssh access, using only one partition, and with only one reboot at the very end of the conversion process. And by completely, I mean completely. You can delete every single file of the old distro if you want.
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poontangpirateSep 17, 2007
Linux...May the Source be with you.<a class="user" href="http://www.geekstir.com/pictures/linux-may-the-source-be-with-you/">http://www.geekstir.com/pictures/linux-may-the-source-be-with-you/</a>
lohphatSep 17, 2007
She's dead. No accounting for taste.
meneerrSep 17, 2007
If you don't know about SSH nor POSIX .. what the f**k are you doing with linux on a server in some data-center where you can't accessed it physically?
dhdennySep 17, 2007
"Set up the kernel, network and disk drivers, boot loader, initrd and anything else that you need to make sure your new distro can boot. I'm not going to cover the details here because each of those tasks is well-documented elsewhere."This is a helpful article, but they leave out the details regarding the most important and difficult tasks.