On 4 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 10:08, Tom Diehl wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone has tried to upgrade from 7.2 to 2.1AS using yum?? > > I have built most of it from the .src rpms but for some reason I cannot get > > the right combination of anaconda, libs and kernels to allow me to get 2.1AS > > installed on the machine. I am thinking about bypassing the anaconda problems > > by using yum to do the upgrade. I got 99% of the rpms to build using a > > partially updated 7.2 box as a compile box. > > > > provided that the rpms are newer (ie, higher e-v-r) then it should work. Makes perfect sense. I would not expect trying to go the other way to work. > I did a fair number of rhl 7.1->7.3 and rhl 7.2->7.3 upgrades with yum - > and barring some dumb pkging bugs they worked pretty ok. Understood > Specifically look out for the kernel <2.4.7 and mkinitrd > > in short - remove the older kernels. 2.1AS uses a 2.4.9 series kernel. I am not sure what the errata kernel is but at this point I suppose there is no reason not to just compile all of the errata stuff and do it with the yum update. Do you agree or is there a reason to do it after the inital upgrade?? > I upgraded a primary file server from 7.2 to 7.3 in place, other than > the reboot it works just fine. OOH!! I like that!! Thanks for the info, -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....
