Upgrading RHEL U4 to U7 using iso ?

[fret]

Hi there,

I plan to upgrade some HP DL380-G4 servers (Xeon 3.6 EM64T) currently running RHEL-ES v3-u4 (x86-64) to RHEL-ES v3-u7 using the iso I've downloaded on RHN.

I've red that itsn't possible to boot on CD to perform this upgrade. I even give a try without success.

I also tried to upgrade using up2date with the burned iso on CD, but I didn't find the correct option (-k isn't working).
I don't want to use Internet connection (too slow here).

I'm wondering if the only solution is to copy (or mount the iso) on the local filesystem then ask rpm -Uvh *.rpm ?
I really don't want to use this method, seems a bit dirty to me...

Is there any other process to uppgrade an RHEL v3 box ?

Many tanks.

PS : I've upgraded same hardware running SLES 9 without problems using YaST... Maybe there's no such easy way using RHEL ?

[Sung Oh]

Hi,

have you consider using rpm -ivh method? and modify grub.conf later.

Regards,
Sung

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

I would suggest yum.

You find the rpm and install it, do some research to find a repository for RH 3 or even better set up your own local yum repo.

Yum repo:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article/node14.html
http://www.charlescurley.com/yum/repository.html

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=440160

SEP

[fret]

I'm a bit surprised that RH doesn't have any tricks to upgrade RHEL using their own tools !

I was googeling during the day and it really seems that the only way is to create a network repository using another tool appart from up2date....

YaST is more powerful concerning this upgrade. You can add service packs without any kind of problems whatever the way you choose to upgrade (nfs/CD/http....)

I was expecting I've done seomething wrong or that I didn't look for the good tool but it seems that yum is one way.

Will give a try today and keep you posted.

[fret]

Thanks Steven.

I've build a yum repo and upgraded the server without any kind of problems.
As I already mentionned, YaST on SLES 9 is more powerfull to perfom this upgrade...but yum has worked fine !