On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:58:27AM -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner enlightened us:
Hi folks,
I have a production server that's currently running 5.0 with all updates. What's the easiest, or perhaps best way to upgrade it to 5.1, with minimal down time? The downtime is critical, so I need to have it be a short as possible. I can live with an hour or two, but larger is going to be a pain.
Suggestions?
5.0 with all updates is equal to 5.1 with all updates. So probably all you have to do is reboot to the latest kernel.
Unless you've changed the default yum repo files to stay at 5.0 for some reason, you should already be at 5.1.
Matt