On Monday 09 September 2002 17:21, HoytDuff wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2002 10:54 am, Belkie, Dan scribbled in crayon > on a > > yellow legal pad: > > Hey guys! > > I have a couple 8.1 boxes out there and want to upgrade them.... > > Can I do this remote? I would prefer not to go down to each > > location. > > > > Thanks! > > Anything to keep you from accessing the remote hosts with ssh and > running the appropriate urmp* comamnd?
That works, since I did upgrade just last weekend one machine from 8.2 to cooker (or about 9.0 RC2). Never tried upgrade from 8.1 remotely though. If you have never done it, I would recommend first do an upgrade for a similar machine locally to see in which order to do things. I have done in order 1. glibc, and if remote, sshd 2. kernel and initscripts 3. reboot 4. rpm and urpmi plus some conflicting packages 5. --auto-select When doing it remote, it is good to have a backup connection (like telnet) in case ssh upgrade fails. Also in some versions I have observed that current ssh connections are killed when sshd is restarted after the upgrade--that is catastrophic if you are connected with ssh. That is not too complicated process, having done it to three machines so far. Step 4 needs some cleaning, since old 8.2 urpmi does not remove packages automatically, and there are some dependencies not up to date. Teemu
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