Kickstarting an upgrade from RHEL3 to RHEL4...

[Binand Sethumadhavan]

On 29/11/06, Phil Bettinson <phb at llgc.org.uk> wrote:
> Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
> > upgrade
> > lang en_US
> > langsupport --default en_US en_US
> > keyboard us
> > mouse none --device null
> > skipx
> > firewall --disabled
> > url --url http://10.1.5.243/rhel4/
> > reboot
>
> Rather you than me!
>
> Is there not even the chance of a serial console? cause you can
> kick-start happily over that!
>
> I'm not sure if I'd want to do a kickstart upgrade without access to at
> least one terminal!

Call me adventurous - but the fact is that the ILO port of the server
was left unpatched :) Well, I have *installed* over the network
several times, the console is not usually necessary. It is just that I
have never tried an *upgrade* and am not too sure of the required ks
file elements. The documentation is pretty detailed for installs, but
not for upgrades.

Anyway, I did try doing this (in a lab) and figured that in rhel4, the
release notes file is mandatory inside the webroot. Quite a big
difference from rhel3 (where only the RedHat subdirectory was needed
inside the webroot). See this:

10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.UTF-8.html HTTP/1.0" 404 314 "-"
"Python-urllib/
2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES.en_US.UTF-8 HTTP/1.0" 404 309 "-"
"Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html HTTP/1.0" 404 308 "-"
"Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES.en_US HTTP/1.0" 404 303 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html HTTP/1.0" 404 305 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES.en HTTP/1.0" 404 300 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES-C.html HTTP/1.0" 404 304 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES.C HTTP/1.0" 404 299 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html HTTP/1.0" 404 305 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES-en HTTP/1.0" 404 300 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET
/rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES.html HTTP/1.0" 404 302 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"
10.80.5.242 - - [28/Nov/2006:12:39:26 -0500] "GET /rhel4/RELEASE-NOTES
HTTP/1.0" 404 297 "-" "Python-urllib/2.1"

And the install stops.

Binand