Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:29 +0100, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
> I'm sorry for the title. It is a challenge that I have at the moment.
> We
> have some VPS(s) 6 in total, and I wish to upgrade the distro that
> comes
> with them. They are currently running FC3 - which is umm... a little
> older than I'm comfortable with. I do recall a few years back that I
> managed to do something similar with debian, where I was able to
> upgrade
> the distro running, to run a debian distro of my choice following a
> guide online, and I recall I had to turn off swap, and use chroot in
> the
> swap partition, something like that.
I've no idea what a VPS is,
Virtual Private Server:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server
but if it can boot from a USB pendrive
(thumbdrive, memory stick, whatever) then the procedure is fairly
simple.
It really depends what kind of VPS it is... I think we'd have to know
more details. Sometimes these VPS(s) are software partitions on the same
machine that share the same operating system and I'm not sure it's
possible to completely upgrade the OS.
In general, you can either connect a DVD and run RPM with the Freshen
argument (rpm -F) against the RPMs on the DVD, or fiddle with the Yum
repository definitions to point to a new updated repo and run yum upgrade.
But really - an FC3 to F10 upgrade via that method is going to be your
own personal hell. So much has changed and this install method is
completely unsupported and untested that it's likely that you will break
lots of things.
What kind of interface do you get to these VPS's? Can you see the grub
menu when they boot? If so, what about copying the kernel and initrd
from an F10 DVD, adding the appropriate entry into /etc/grub.conf and
then booting to the installer?
Something like:
title F10upgrade
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-f10 text askmethod
initrd /initrd-f10
And then if it boots (I suggest trying this on a local system first
because I'm inventing this as I go along) you can do an anaconda upgrade
in text mode.
--
Sam
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