[rhn-users] Re: RH9 to RHE3

[Dan Wittenberg]

Here's the procedure I've been using to upgrade from RHL to RHEL:

1)  Backup obviously
2)  Pop in RHEL CD 1, and at the boot prompt type:  linux text
upgradeany
3)  Answer all the questions and go ahead and reboot when it finishes
4)  Stick RHEL CD #1 in and mount it
5)  cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/
56)  rpm -Uvh comps-3*rpm redhat-release* --force --nodeps
7)  rpm -Uvh elfutils* rhnlib* up2date* pyOpenSSL* python-optik*
rpm-python  (some of these might already be installed)
8)  up2date --register (or however you are registering with RHN)
9)  up2date --install acl attr devlabel lslk netdump pinfo prelink
redhat-lsb schedutils setarch symlinks
10)  rpm -e anacron bdflush ksymoops lrzsz lynx reiserfs-utils sash
11)  up2date --update --force
12)  reboot

I also have a list of RPM's that I think are not of much value but are
installed as part of @base so I manually remove them too.

I've done this quite a few times now and not any problems so far.

Good luck!  (and let me know if you have any good or bad experiences
with this or have better ideas).

Dan


On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:11, Jon Branch wrote:
> Now thats really interesting. How do you do it?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jon Branch
> Christian Alliance International School - Hong Kong
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg at uiowa.edu>
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:51:03 -0500
> To: Red Hat Network Users List <rhn-users at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Re: RH9 to RHE3
> 
> > There is a way, I've done it many times to RH 7.1, 7.3, and 9.  It's not
> > officially supported, but it works fine.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:03, Sonny Zambrana wrote:
> > > >From what I understand there is now way to upgrade from RH9 to RHEL3
> > >