> yeah while an upgrade from remote should be possible it might be a much
> better idea to get a clean install - I suppose it is not possible to get
> some sort of OOB access to that box (serial console,KVM,Dell DRAC,...) ?
I'm mostly certain that is not possible to do it remotely, except if you
have a DRAC or similar ... I had tried this once on my desktop, and the
results were anything but bootable :) Thank god I put everything on my
desktop onto seperate file systems and could still installed easily via CD
...