On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:37 +0100, Peter van Eck wrote:
Thanks. Ignore most of my previous reply.
Yes I didn't install this machine initially so have no clue how the HPinitrd was built. Luckily I found some leftovers from that ~/root including a rhel3 HP280 install doc. I won't attempt to upgrade the kernel or install a new one without having access to the console. The machine is physically 1500 km away :-)
So not touching the kernel but upgrade the rest of the system will cause no harm ?
A detailed description in the smartfaq on how to migrate RHEL3 to CentOS 3 is using "yum update" instead of "yum upgrade"
However the man page says that "upgrade" is deprecated and may be removed in the future ..
thanks, Peter
yum upgrade
That upgrades/removes obsoletes ... (sometimes packages obsolete other packages).
Since you want to upgrade to the latest release ... that is a little bit different :)
You can just download the same 3 programs I told you ... but the newest versions ... from here (yum, centos-release, centos-yumcache):
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
You still want to add the:
exclude=kernel-2.4*
(that is better than kernel* as it blocks less stuff and only the kernels)
You don't need to change the paths or remark out any of the standard repos.