On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I've been running a CentOS 5.5 system for a while using some > Nvidia drivers for an older Nvidia card (GeForce 6200 card). > I'd like to upgrade to 5.8 using yum but I was curious if anyone > has done this using yum? Any gotchas? (I can handle the > Nvidia upgrade part once the system is upgraded). 'yum update' should do the job. You might want to do some stepwise updates according to : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.6#head-60758eb5ab66c94f98fda0383fa8c7a8b97b9c53 yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update yum\* rpm\* pyth\* yum clean all yum update mkinitrd nash yum update selinux\* yum update shutdown -r now > BTW - I'm using driver 256.35 and looking at Nvidia's site > it looks like 304.51 is the latest (I'm running 32-bit believe it > or not). I suggest you look into ELRepo's kmod-nvidia : http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx (You need to find the version that works for your device) Once installed, there is no need to rebuild for each kernel update. Akemi