Redhat 7.3 Upgrade

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This is my experiences based on the guide at Brandon Hutchinson's site[1]

Installing Yum

This was already done on the server I was working on, so I'll include this for posterity only

# rpm -Uvh http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-2.0.4-1.noarch.rpm

The server I was working on failed this install, stating that rpm was 0.1 behind the version I required. But I am forging ahead regardless.

Installing redhat-release package

The link on brandon's site failed for me, but we have a local mirror of w:Red Hat Linux so I used the redhate-release RPM from there, it failed on the first attempt because of a clash of files, but a quick --force later ..

[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -ivh http://apt.ozservers.com.au/redhat/9/en/i386/RPMS.os/redhat-release-9-3.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://apt.ozservers.com.au/redhat/9/en/i386/RPMS.os/redhat-release-9-3.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
file /etc/issue from install of redhat-release-9-3 conflicts with file from package redhat-release-7.3-1
file /etc/issue.net from install of redhat-release-9-3 conflicts with file from package redhat-release-7.3-1
[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -ivh --force http://apt.ozservers.com.au/redhat/9/en/i386/RPMS.os/redhat-release-9-3.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://apt.ozservers.com.au/redhat/9/en/i386/RPMS.os/redhat-release-9-3.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:redhat-release         ########################################### [100%]

Running yum update

Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386 - freshrpms
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386 - os
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386 - updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
getting /var/cache/yum/os/headers/gnuchess-0-4.0.pl80-8.i386.hdr
....
getting /var/cache/yum/os/headers/xosview-0-1.7.3-10.i386.hdr
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: kernel.athlon]
[update: iptables.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Getting iptables-1.2.8-8.72.3.i386.rpm
Getting kernel-2.4.20-28.7.athlon.rpm
Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
kernel 100 % done
iptables 100 % done
Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader
Lilo found - adding kernel to lilo and making it the default
Installed:  kernel.athlon
Updated:  iptables.i386
Transaction(s) Complete


Useful Links

References

  1. Upgrading Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core with yum
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