Thanks a lot, I hoped I could do it from home but it seems that there will be another long weekend at work... :-)
christian -- "I sense much NT in you, NT leads to Blue Screen. Blue Screen leads to downtime, downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside." - Unknown Unix Jedi > -----Original Message----- > From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Masopust, Christian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Upgrade RHEL4 to RHEL5 by rpms > > On Friday 11 July 2008 06:39:53 am Masopust, Christian wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > has anybody of you done a upgrade of RHEL4 to RHEL5 without booting > > form DVD? > > Yes, but its been a while, and technically, I believe its > completely and > totally unsupported. i.e., if you break things, you keep the > pieces. Anaconda > knows more about potential pitfalls than just the rpm > database alone, so it > can handle things that might otherwise throw rpm for a loop. > I don't recall > offhand exactly what those pitfalls might be though. > > > Is it possible to do an upgrade "by rpm" ? How?? > > Well, there's the brute force method, where you just mount > the DVD and do a > bunch of rpm -Uvh's (or rpm -Fvh's, followed by rpm -ivh's to > clean up > anything not handled), or you can find yum for RHEL4, point > it at the yum > repo metadata on the RHEL5 DVD, and let yum do the upgrade. > But again, you > keep the pieces if anything breaks. You're probably best off > letting the > installer do the upgrade. > > -- > Jarod Wilson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
