{"id":193,"date":"2011-01-26T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitc.bme.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=193"},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:10:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:10:42","slug":"upgrade-rhel5-to-rhel6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"upgrade RHEL5 to RHEL6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By adding in &#8220;upgradeany&#8221; after the RHEL6 installation CD\/DVD&#8217;s GRUB interface, it allowed to do the upgrading.<br \/>\n(Press TAB, and add on upgradeany after initre=initrd.img)<\/p>\n<p>However, it failed on package kde-filesystem.<\/p>\n<p>To resolve this, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, it will bring you into a shell of the installation environment.<\/p>\n<p>From here, you can try<\/p>\n<p>$ cd \/mnt\/source\/Packages<br \/>\n$ yum -ivh &#8211;force &#8211;root \/mnt\/sysimage <\/p>\n<p>This will tell you what&#8217;s wrong on installing it.  <\/p>\n<p>For mine, it was a series of folders in RHEL5 that should be replaced by symbolic links.<\/p>\n<p>I hand moved the files in those folders to where they supposed to be for RHEL6, and created the symbolic links.  Then the upgrading was able to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By adding in &#8220;upgradeany&#8221; after the RHEL6 installation CD\/DVD&#8217;s GRUB interface, it allowed to do the upgrading. (Press TAB, and add on upgradeany after initre=initrd.img) However, it failed on package kde-filesystem. To resolve this, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, it will bring you into a shell of the installation environment. From here, you can try $ cd \/mnt\/source\/Packages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tips","category-mri-technical-support","post-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}