Hi folks,
I’ve spent too much time searching without success on this problem:
I have a number of SLES9 (SP4) servers that I need to update to SLES10. I cannot do a clean install, as I need the existing 3rd party software to persist on the system (manual install would take prohibitively long).
I would like to do this using a SLES server that provides the SLES10 media over the network (local HTTP).
I can easily configure autoyast to perform a clean install over the network, but I can’t see an (automated) way of performing an update.
The path I’ve been looking at so far has been:
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Copy linux & initrd from SLES10 media ‘boot’ path onto /boot of target server.
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Reconfigure grub on target to boot new kernel with options configuring the NIC and pointing at my ‘depot’ server, etc.
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Reboot
I’d like the above scenario to be able to automatically update to SLES10, but I don’t see how (if I interact manually, I can select Install->Update)! :’(
Any help would be greatly appreciated…
Regards,
Bruisah.