Re: Upgrade RHEL3 from U4 to U6

"Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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On 15 Jul 2006 20:06:01 +0200, Simon J Mudd <[email protected]> wrote:
> yh.chen-L1s+zmLW8QVT/[email protected] ("Yh Chen") writes:
>
> >    We have a server that installed RHEL3 U4 and we are planning to
> >    upgrade to U6. Because it could not connect to internet via
> >    internal network. So it could not upgrade via RHN. Can We use
> >    RHEL3 U6 cd-Roms upgrade it without to reinstall it? Any
> >    suggestion are welcome.
>
> Would it not be possible still to copy the RHEL3U6 RPMs into a known location then then run
> rpm -Fvh *.rpm ?
>
> In theory all required RHEL dependencies should be satisfied.
>

Yes. I have done this way before for RHEL3->RHEL3 upgrades.

I then do a :

find / | egrep 'rpmsave$|rpmorig$'

to make sure I have a bootable system afterwords.


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