Dave, I haven't looked at all the updates on the Red Hat site, so I can't be sure, but you will probably want to take your system down to single user mode (telinit -s) before you install the RPMs. For updates that replace core system components, this is usually considered best practice. If there's a kernel update in there, and I think there is, you'll need to download the corresponding OCO modules from IBM to replace the one(s) you have now.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dave Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sanity Check please! Steps to apply Updates to a RH 7.2 system I have been tasked to upgrade a RH 7.2 system. Are these correct steps?? Is it OK to run the RPM updates against a "live" system, assuming I have backed up first using OFFLINDR ? I'm not sure I really need to do step3 ??? TIA Dave 1. Backup/Clone RH 7.2 2. Apply all RPM updates to RH 7.2 system from <A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/s390/";>ftp://f tp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/s390/</A> 3. Reapply the LCS OCO Driver to the newly updated system. 4. Rewrite boot sector with zipl util 5. Backup new RH 7.2 using the OFFLINDR util. 6. Test new RH 7.2
