I like the pxeboot option. Will try it out tomorrow. Thanks for
the very clear instruction!
Best Regards,
Ping
Steven J. Yellin wrote:
> One way to upgrade a cluster of RH 7.3 computers to RH9 without a
> CD-ROM drive is to use one of your own computers as a NFS server. Copy
> the RH9 distribution to a directory you make for them on a shared
> partition. You can get the three shrike-i386-disc*.iso files
> (corresponding to three installation CD-ROMs) and the MD5SUM file to
> check their validity from, say,
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/ or a mirror. For RH9
> the NFS installation can be done directly from the .iso files, just by
> pointing the installer to the computer and directory with the three files.
> The installation is done using floppies. First boot with the bootdisk one
> and then use the drvnet one. The floppies can be made from files in
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/images/. Read the
> README in that directory and see the RH9 Installation Guide at, say,
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide.
> This assumes you have floppy drives. If you don't, it's still
> possible to do an NFS installation. I think it would work to copy
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/images/pxeboot/
> initrd.img and vmlinuz into some directory you make on each computer
> you want to upgrade. As an example, let's call the directory /RH9,
> suppose your root is the /dev/hda2 partition, and assume you're using
> grub. For this example one would add to /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> title Install RH9
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /RH9/vmlinuz
> initrd /RH9/initrd.img
>
> Then reboot and select the "Install RH9" choice.
>
> Steven Yellin
>
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Ping Yeh wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>> I have a cluster of Red Hat 7.3 boxes and I'm planning to
>>migrate to SL 3.0.4 for now (and SL 4.0 when appropriate).
>>However, the documentation on 7.2->SL says I should do a 2-step
>>upgrade: first upgrade to RH 9 with CD-ROM, then upgrade to
>>SL with yum. Because I don't have CD-ROM drives on my nodes,
>>this is not very convenient.
>>
>> I tried to use rpm to install yum-conf-30x.SL.noarch.rpm,
>>but it needs "--force" to ignore the conflicts with files of
>>old yum. Then "yum -c /etc/yum.conf.304 update yum" produces
>>the error messages below:
>>
>>Error getting file
>>ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/304/i386/errata/SL/RPMS/headers/header.info
>>[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] [Errno ftp error] 500 Illegal PORT command.
>>
>>Any advices on how to proceed is appreciated!
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ping
>>
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