How To Upgrade 7.1 to 7.3 via yum

[Troy Dawson]

OK, web page works, been tested on fresh 7.1 machine.
Please send me any problems, but I'm not here for the rest of the weekend. :)
Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Doug Koobs wrote:
> 
>>> I finolly found a pure RedHat 7.1 installation (instead of a Fermi 
>>> Linux one) so I'm running through the steps right now.
>>>
>>> Troy
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>>
>> Thanks Troy! I think I'll wait till I hear back from you before I 
>> proceed.
>> Doug
>>
> Hi Doug,
> I'm still working on the web page.  It does currently have a link to a 
> working yum.conf.  It is essentially what you said, but it also has the 
> exclude=kernel commented out, cuz you really do want to upgrade the kernel.
> 
> There are a couple of things you need to double check.  Make sure you 
> have at least the 4.0.4 version of rpm, and you have to have the popt 
> and the glibc that goes along with them.
> 
> Make sure you have up2date uninstalled.
> 
> Also make sure you don't have any 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 RedHat kernels installed.
> 
> 
> Beyond those things, my upgrade went quite well.
> 
> I've got to re-install a machine and try the script I'm working on, so 
> the web page might take a little bit longer to finish.
> 
> Troy
> 

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