I upgraded from RedHat 4.? to 5.0 on a live system and only rebooted
once after compiling a new kernel. However, I did not use any
'automagic' means to do this. I upgraded each individual package
manually using Midnight Commander (MC). It took most of an evening
to install the packages and retweak all the configs, but considering
the box was 15 miles away from where I was and it was only offline
for the amount of time needed to reboot and force fsck on all
partitions, if I ever do just an OS upgrade without also doing
hardware upgrades, I'll probably try it again.
Also for the record, that was one of the key factors that has
resulted in my using Redhat ever since.
Regards,
Jarrod
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote:
> Hello!
>
> A Question: is it possible to do an upgrade (e.g. 6.1 -> 6.2) while the
> system is up and running.
>
> I could do an rpm -F /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPM/*, but this might break some
> dependencies (of packages which got split up for example)
>
> It is because i want to reduce downtimes due to upgrades (and be able to
> do the upgrade remotely.)
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
> LL&P Ulrich
>
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