On Dec 5, 2007 8:48 AM, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
I've googled for this but haven't found an answer. I've got a 5.0 box
that i'd like to take to 5.1. I believe this is possible as i did an upgrade from 4.x to 5.0 but can't remember what i did. Ideally i'd like to avoid any downtime.
'yum update' will take you between minor versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2) without any issues. The only downtime required is to reboot to the new kernel which contains several fixes. This part you can usually do whenever you can schedule it.