On 7/11/08, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
don't you mean Fvh's ? andthen Uvh's on any specific rpms that won't go on their own?
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