On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 > 386. > I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: > 1.) backup > 2.) > rpm --import > http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centOS-5 > rpm -Uvh --nodeps > http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm > rpm -i --nodeps --force > http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm > yum upgrade > > Everything was progressing until I did tte "yum upgrade" > I got an error about not finding a yum package. > > "There was a problem importing one of the python modules > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > No module named yum" > > What do I do now... > > Thanks, > There are significant changes in the kernel, software, ext3 etc. The only way I would trust an update from RHL-9 to EL-5 would be to do a DVD upgrade... and then I would probably say its faster to do a new install and reinstall old software. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"