Topic: Upgrade Question

[John]

Hi Guys !!

I have a question about the upgrade process to 4.0.1 ??

I have been running e-smith for a while now (uptime 150days), but I have been running version 3.1, and I want to upgrade to a newer version, so I read the posts and found one that told how to do an upgrade from FTP so I tried it, below are the commands that he said to use:

FTPSITE=ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith-4.0/updates/RPMS/noarch
rpm -Uvh $FTPSITE/e-smith-release-4.0.1.noarch.rpm
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event upgrade

Now all of these worked perfectly, I think ??

Here are my questions:

1. Did the upgrade work even though I ran it from ver 3.1, or do I have to upgrade to version 4.0 first ???

2. How can I tell that I'm at version 4.0.1 now, I don't have access to the box, I do most of my work through telnet ??

3. If I have to upgrade to ver 4.0 first, did I do anythiing bad to my e-smith box, and I can fix it

[Charlie Brady]

John wrote:

> 1. Did the upgrade work even though I ran it from ver 3.1, or
> do I have to upgrade to version 4.0 first ???

You need to upgrade to version 4.0 first.

> 2. How can I tell that I'm at version 4.0.1 now, I don't have
> access to the box, I do most of my work through telnet ??

You aren't at version 4.0.1 now. You are at some strange mix of 3.1 and 4.0.1.
 
> 3. If I have to upgrade to ver 4.0 first, did I do anythiing
> bad to my e-smith box, and I can fix it

Just upgrade to 4.0, then apply the 4.0.1 upgrade.

Regards

Charlie