[lug] upgrading from redhat-6.1

[Peter Hutnick]

Jeffery D. Collins said:
> Maybe we should backup the user data,
> attempt this approach and perform a clean install if it fails.

You're thinking about backing up user data at this sage of the game?

No wonder my Dad (the "mainframe guy") is always trashing us "open systems
guys" :-(

Anyway, have you considered an intermediate upgrade?  Say to RH 7.3 . . .

As to patching up, I never tried to use RHN with a RH6 box.  If you have
trouble getting it to work consider downloading all of errata (like "wget
-c ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/6.2/en/os/i386/*") then
do "rpm -Uvh --freshen *.rpm".  It will probably choke on some packages
(notably packages that have multiple updates) keep junking them until ya
get a bunch of hashes.

Good luck.

-Peter