On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:20:32 -0400, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Thank you for reading my message. I have to upgrade three linux boxes, > > that are FC3,4 and 6. Now, the problem that I have is that these > > machines have other services running on them, and I do not want to break > > anything. > > > > All three servers are in two collocation facilities, and I believe that > > the safest method, is to move all services off from the machines, and > > also remove all software to make the machines as stock as possible. I > > then plan to run yum upgrade a few times until I'm up to date with the > > repo, and then follow that with a yum upgrade - rinse, and repeat until > > I'm at FC8 - I'll wait until 11 is in beta before I move forward to FC9. > > I would appreciate any help or comments that you have. > > I'm not sure I would do 'yum upgrade'. But, with the systems being > remote I don't know what other options there are on systems that old. > I've got several systems I've upgraded (via media) from FC2 up to F9 > without trouble. Doing remote yum upgrades has a significant risk of leaving a machine in a state where it cannot reboot without intention. In particular some of the mkinitrd stuff doesn't work well when run under a kernel signicantly different then the one its building an initrd for. At the very least have a plan for what you are going to do if things go fubar during the updates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
