Jerry Geis wrote:
> I have older systems out there that work fine, just for what ever reason
> would be great to upgrade from a C5 -> C7 (due to no longer supported) or
> C6 > C7 (for updated packages).
>
> Sounds like the upgrade tool is not quite an option...
> I was thinking...
>
> What would be wrong with any "easy" script that did the following:
>
> 1) Removed all packages with the --justdb option.
> 2) Import the RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7
> 3) install the centos-release-7.3.1611 ... rpm
> 4) yum -y upgrade
> 5) yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" (for example)
>
> and reboot of course.
>
> Does that have any chance or working and be valid?
>
I know I've posted what we do here to upgrade one system from another
before, but not in a few years.
mkdir /new
mkdir /boot/new
rsync -HPavzx --exclude=/old --exclude=/var/log/wtmp
--exclude=/var/log/lastlog $machine:/. /new/.
rsync -HPavzx $machine:/boot/. /boot/new/.
rsync -HPavzx /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
/new/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
rsync -HPavzx /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /new/etc/sysconfig
rsync -HPavzx /boot/grub/device.map /boot/new/grub/
rsync -HPavzx /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
/new/etc/udev/rules.d/
find /new/var/log/ -type f -exec cp /dev/null {} \;
Fix /new/etc/fstab, ESP if you use UUID. I *strongly* prefer LABEL=
Then, any webserver stuff if the old was running it.
If this system is using Linux RAID,
rsync -HPavx /old/etc/md.conf /etc/
If yuo want to, copy the original SSH keys:
rsync -HPavzx /etc/ssh/ssh_host* /new/etc/ssh
Don't forget /boot/grub/device.map, and for C6, /new/boot/grub/grub.conf
is right, or for C7, /new/boot/grub2/grub.conf is good.
NOTE this will work for identical machines. Otherwise, BEFORE you rotate
ou may need to run "mkinitrd" for the latest kernel if the hardware is
different between the machine you are upgrading and the machine you made
the copy.
mount --bind /dev /new/dev
mount --bind /sys /new/sys
mount --bind /proc /new/proc
mount --bind /boot/new /new/boot
chroot /new
cd /lib/modules
VER=$(ls -rt1 | tail -1)
echo $VER
mkinitrd X $VER
mv X /boot/initrd-$VER.img
exit
umount /new/dev /new/sys /new/proc /new/boot
Then rotate:
zsh
zmodload zsh/files
cd /boot
mkdir old
mv * old
mv old/lost+found .
mv old/new/* .
# Root partition.
cd /
mkdir old
mv * old
mv old/lost+found .
#mv old/root . -- WHY?
mv old/scratch .
mv old/new/* .
sync
sync
And reboot. If there are issues with grub, get it up from the grub shell,
then grub-install or grub2-install as appropriate.
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