[rhn-users] upgrading to RHEL WS version 3

[Gordon Chung]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 rhn-users-request at redhat.com wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:49:07 +0100 (BST)
> From: Gordon Chung <gordonc at holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
> Subject: [rhn-users] upgrading to RHEL WS version 3
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> Hi there,
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> I'm currently on RHEL WS version 2.1 and having looked at the man page for
> up2date (up2date-2.9.3-2.2.1AS), cannot figure out whether I can upgrade
> to version 3 or not.
>
> I've tried putting in the version 3 install cd to see if there is an
> upgrade option to the install but there doesn't seem to be. I suppose I
> could do an install and preserve existing data by not reformatting the
> hard disk but would that not leave me with 2 versions of the each package.
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Gordon
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> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:19:52 -0500
> From: "Paul A. Kennedy" <pakenned at beckman.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] upgrading to RHEL WS version 3
> To: Red Hat Network Users List <rhn-users at redhat.com>
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:49:07PM +0100, Gordon Chung wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm currently on RHEL WS version 2.1 and having looked at the man page for
> > up2date (up2date-2.9.3-2.2.1AS), cannot figure out whether I can upgrade
> > to version 3 or not.
> >
> > I've tried putting in the version 3 install cd to see if there is an
> > upgrade option to the install but there doesn't seem to be. I suppose I
> > could do an install and preserve existing data by not reformatting the
> > hard disk but would that not leave me with 2 versions of the each package.
> >
> > Any advice appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gordon
> >
>
> >From the documentation, there is an upgrade option ("linux upgrade" from the
> boot prompt).
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/ap-upgrade.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> Paul

Thanks Paul, typing "linux upgrade" at the boot prompt did the trick.

Cheers
Gordon
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Gordon Chung
Unix Systems Support
Computing Services
University of Edinburgh
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