I attempted an upgrade from RHEL4 to RHEL5 using a CDROM anaconda upgrade but it caused a few problems.
After the upgrade, I could not upgrade the kernel because of conflicts with initscripts, hal, and kudzu. (I went ahead and removed kudzu OK, but in the process of removing hal (which removed much of Gnome, which I do not need) the yum repository data was deleted: # yum repolist repolist: 0 (Removing hal also unconfigured my eth interface and trashed resolv.conf. Eth0 went down and I had to reconnect via the console and restart the interface.) Stuck? Not hardly. The host is in another building, but I already have the RHEL5 ISO file on my PC that I used to upgrade the host with using iDRAC virtual media. So I just remounted the ISO via the iDRAC on the running system, and then created a repo file pointing to the CDROM: [RHEL5-ISO] name="RHEL5 ISO mounted on /mnt" gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 baseurl=file:///cdrom/Server/ I reinstalled hal and I can also reinstall anything I want from the CD. So my question is: Now that Up2date is gone from RHEL5, which yum package / RPM do I need to install that will point yum back to RHN's repositories? BTW for this to happen yum and the iDRAC have to be firing on all cylinders - thanks for that. Virtual media is awesome - when I type "eject" on the remote host it even pops open the CDROM on my desktop. -w _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
