greetings - I'm trying to upgrade a centos 3.6 box to version 4. I tried to do an upgrade using yum but that failed and now the Cd installer is not letting me upgrade either. Here's what I did:
following the howto, I tried to do the upgrade using yum. I installed the GPG key and upgraded the centos-release and the centos-yumconf packages. When I tried to upgrade yum package I ran into dependency problems.
I downloaded and reinstalled the version 3.6 centos-release rpm. Then I downloaded and burned the CDs.
I boot from the CD but I don't see an option to upgrade. I get to the installer screen that asks for the type of installation (desktop, server, workstation etc) but I see no option to perform an upgrade. Is the upgrade option hidden somewhere? did the installer not detect my centos 3.6 system? When I tried the yum upgrade, did I do something to make the installer think I have centos 4 installed (like the GPG key)?
Any help is appreciated! cheers Mike
Michael Thon spake the following on 1/24/2006 11:31 AM:
greetings - I'm trying to upgrade a centos 3.6 box to version 4. I tried to do an upgrade using yum but that failed and now the Cd installer is not letting me upgrade either. Here's what I did:
following the howto, I tried to do the upgrade using yum. I installed the GPG key and upgraded the centos-release and the centos-yumconf packages. When I tried to upgrade yum package I ran into dependency problems.
I downloaded and reinstalled the version 3.6 centos-release rpm. Then I downloaded and burned the CDs.
I boot from the CD but I don't see an option to upgrade. I get to the installer screen that asks for the type of installation (desktop, server, workstation etc) but I see no option to perform an upgrade. Is the upgrade option hidden somewhere? did the installer not detect my centos 3.6 system? When I tried the yum upgrade, did I do something to make the installer think I have centos 4 installed (like the GPG key)?
Any help is appreciated! cheers Mike
Use the option --upgradeany when you boot from the install cd
IE... linux --upgradeany
Michael Thon wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
Use the option --upgradeany when you boot from the install cd
IE... linux --upgradeany
omit the --, and you're right. (-:
boot: linux upgradeany
Thanks - actually, linux --upgradeany worked for me cheers Mike
installer options by default do not have the -- portion. Therefore the correct boot line is, as Rex already pointed out, 'linux upgradeany'
The reason why it worked for you, is that this specific test is done by looking for the 'upgradeany' string on the command line, anywhere, in any format. Here is the actual sniplet of code where this eval is done
" if ((cmdline.find("upgradeany") != -1) "
hence, you lucked out.
Rex Dieter spake the following on 1/24/2006 12:05 PM:
Scott Silva wrote:
Use the option --upgradeany when you boot from the install cd
IE... linux --upgradeany
omit the --, and you're right. (-:
boot: linux upgradeany
-- Rex
OOps :+(
Rex Dieter wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
Use the option --upgradeany when you boot from the install cd IE... linux --upgradeany
omit the --, and you're right. (-: boot: linux upgradeany
Reference: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-inst...
-- Rex
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