Topic: Upgrade without booting off CD

[Byron]

Is it possible to upgrade from 5.5 to 5.6 without doing a boot?  I have a new system I need to install for a mail server, and I just keep getting an error while the 5.6 CD boots.  Keeps complaining that PCI is not supported, and if the CD used LILO to load and let me pass options I could pass the needed option to the system, but that is too easy of an option.   I can install everything from 5.1.2 to 6.0b3 but not 5.6,

Is there a way to do a live update while the server is running?  RPM -Uvh *.rpm or something like that?

or is there a way to pass options while booting the CD?

[Charlie Brady]

Byron wrote:
 
> Is it possible to upgrade from 5.5 to 5.6 without doing a
> boot?

No.

> I can install everything from 5.1.2 to 6.0b3 ...

Then install 6.0b3 then updates.
 
> or is there a way to pass options while booting the CD?

I'm sure that it's been mentioned here before. Hold shift, then type:

accept options ...

Charlie

[Byron]

Ok, just thought i would check before I throw in the towel and go with beta3.  Thanks for the quick reply.