How to update Redhat OS version to update 8

[Gary L]

Hi Brendan

contents of /etc/sysconfig/rhn:
#ls
1q rhn-applet sources up2date up2date-uuid
clientCaps.d rhnsd sources.orig up2date-keyring.gpg

the sources.orig is the backup of old sources
according as your steps.

In sources file I just did:
1. # up2date default
2. dir RHEL3U8 /var/spool/u8
according as your steps above
below is the copy of my the update sources file:

# cat sources
### this describes the various package repos up2date will look into
### for packages. It currently supports apt-rpm repos, yum repos,
### and "dir" repos


### format is one repo entry per line, # starts comments, the
### first word on each line is the type of repo.

### the defalt rhn (using "default" as the url means
### use the one in the up2date config file
### This is required.
# up2date default

### When a channel-label is required for the non up2date repo's,
### the label is soley used as an internal identifier and is not
### based on the url or any other info from the repo.

### an apt style repo, this time arjanv's 2.6 kernel repo
### format is:
### type channel-label service:server path repo name

#apt arjan-2.6-kernel-i386 http://people.redhat.com ~arjanv/2.5/ kernel

### Note that for apt repos, there can be multiple repo names specificed
### space seperated.

### an yum style repo
### format:
### type channel-label url

#yum fedora-9-i386-stable http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/stable


### an local directory full of packages
### format
#dir my-favorite-rpms-i386-9 /var/spool/RPMS/
dir RHEL3U8 /var/spool/u8


# multiple versions of all repos except "up2date" can be used. Depenencies
# can be resolved "cross-repo" if need be.

I copied all the *.rpm file of all 4 update 8 CDs to /var/spool/u8
#pwd
/var/spool
#ls
at clientmqueue cron cups lpd mail mqueue postfix repackage samba squid squirrelmail u8 up2date vbox

but when I run "up2date" above erro appear, the seem like up2date wanna access the internet, be denied by proxy

thanks

[Brendan Murphy_5]

I'm stumped. Works fine for me.

The other important configurationfile in the /etc/sysconfig/rhn directory is the up2date file. Maybe you should examine it's contents. Alternately run the command up2date --configure. But before you do take a backup of it. Within here there is are switches that enables/disable proxies, like enableProxy, httpProxy and enableProxyAuth. One or more of these may be set & causing problems.

Brendan