Re: RH upgrade without reboot?

[Sebastian Moeller <moeller s lur rwth-aachen de>]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> Yes.  It is.  But you will have to do that in the right order
> as there some interdepencies and some actions may be a bit hairy.
> When you are running the "standard" procedure you do not
> have to worry about that as you run a minimal system from a ramdisk
> and doing updates on something else.

Well there is a quick and DIRTY way. Put all the new RPMS (which you
want to upgrade) in one directory and do a rpm -Uhv --nodeps  --force
*.rpm (I had to do it twice and I replaced rpm as the last thing), et
voilà you are running rh 5.2. If anything does not install just
reinstall it after everything else is processed. I did this from 5.0 to
5.1 and from 5.1 to 5.2. But beware as I have to take down my jensen on
a regular basis to switch to another OS I have no idea whether this is
suitable for HA-systems.
Ahoi
	Sebastian Moeller