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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:06 PM

I installed Red Hat 7 from CD, now I want to upgrade over the internet
but I don't know the RPM command to upgrade over the internet.

I tried:
>rpm --upgrade http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin.../os/i386/SRPMS
But that errors with "error: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.W3HkPD does not appear
to be a RPM package"

Can someone tell me how to upgrade from RH7 to RH9?

Thanks

-Allen

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:06 PM

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:52:53 -0800, Allen typed:

> I installed Red Hat 7 from CD, now I want to upgrade over the internet
> but I don't know the RPM command to upgrade over the internet.
>
> I tried:
>>rpm --upgrade http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin.../os/i386/SRPMS
> But that errors with "error: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.W3HkPD does not appear to
> be a RPM package"
>
> Can someone tell me how to upgrade from RH7 to RH9?

Backup everything of importance-- docs, settings and etc to a safe media
like tape or CD.

Download the three ISO images and burn them to CD's;
shrike-i386-disc1.iso, shrike-i386-disc2.iso and shrike-i386-disc3.iso

Install RHL9 as a fresh new install do not upgrade, to many changes from
RHL7 to RHL9 to make the upgrade worthwhile.

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:06 PM

Allen <umayxa3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I installed Red Hat 7 from CD, now I want to upgrade over the internet
> but I don't know the RPM command to upgrade over the internet.

> I tried:
> >rpm --upgrade http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin.../os/i386/SRPMS
> But that errors with "error: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.W3HkPD does not appear
> to be a RPM package"

> Can someone tell me how to upgrade from RH7 to RH9?

You can't usually upgrade a rpm driven distro via Internet,
download the .iso(s). I'd go for a fresh installation, backup
/home and all config files.

To backup every config file on you box that came with rpm you
could use something like this (as root) from some xterm/VT:

# rpm -qac | tar -cvzf `hostname`.cf.tar.gz -T - 2>/dev/null

Good luck

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