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    Ongoing observations by End Point Dev people

    Upgrading from RHEL 5.2 to CentOS 5.4

    Jon Jensen

    By Jon Jensen
    October 22, 2009

    I have a testing server that was running RHEL 5.2 (x86_64) but its RHN entitlement ran out and I wanted to upgrade it to CentOS 5.4. I found a few tips online about how to do that, but they were a little dated so here are updated instructions showing the steps I took:

    yum clean all
    mkdir ~/centos
    cd ~/centos
    wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
    wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-5-4.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm
    wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-notes-5.4-4.x86_64.rpm
    wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
    wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5.noarch.rpm
    wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
    rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 
    rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release
    rpm -e yum-rhn-plugin yum-updatesd
    rpm -Uvh *.rpm
    yum -y upgrade
    # edit /etc/grub.conf to point to correct new kernel (with Xen, in my case)
    shutdown -r now
    

    It has worked well so far.

    hosting


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