Re: latest versions

Wonder if I can ask a similar question please,
has anyone tried upgrading from RHEL AS3/i686
to version 5.2, 32 bit, even though it is probably
not a supported action?

Thank you!
John H
Northern Michigan University


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <vincent-NW4UT3oFr8dBDLzU/[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)"
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Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 6:01 AM
Subject: RE: latest versions


>
> Hi,
>
> We performed several i686 upgrades from RHEL AS3/i686 to AS4/i686, it
> worked fine but in some cases some minor cleanups had to be performed (I
> think some packages which were obsoleted had remained on the upgraded
> machines, etc..). The recommended uprade path is indeed to do a CD or DVD
> boot. and choose to 'upgrade' Note that if you're upgrading today (mid-nov
> 2008), then it may be relevant for you to go 64bit (x86_64) but take note
> that there is -no- i686 to x86_64 upgrade path, only a clean re-install
> will do in that case..
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vincent
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
>
>>
>> Upgrading between major releases insn't encouraged (and I don't think
>> supported) but I believe can be done.  If you have lots of non-RH
>> packages/software installed I really would not recommend it.
>>
>> To upgrade, boot install media and choose 'Upgrade' rather than
>> 'Install'.  There may be a way to do it via up2date but I've never done
>> it.
>>
>> CC
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