[SOLVED]Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Net Llama!]

On 12/13/2004 05:16 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>> To make a long story long ...
>>
>> My local server is bad in need of upgrading and I decided to do it by 
>> the cli/network method rather than using the disks since I have 
>> several more to do after this and most are some considerable distance 
>> from here.
>>
>> I tried upgrading RH9 -> FC3 but that appears nigh impossible. So I 
>> dropped back to a stepwise approach and am at the RH9 - > FC1 step. 
>> Unfortunately the box I'm upgrading was installed as RH9 with 
>> "everything".
>>
>> I'm using the instructions at:
>>   http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
>> which seems pretty straightforward.
> 
> 
> Well, the upgrade via yum and done entirely logged in via SSH seems to 
> have worked. The box is now FC1.
> 
> A recap:
> 1. Followed the instructions linked above to install yum and 
> fedora-release.
> 2. Tried yum upgrade but it failed with dependencies on 
> redhat-config-securitylevel, cadaver, pine, jdkgcj.
> 3. I uninstalled those. This forced the uninstall of firstboot also.
> 4. Then set yum -y upgrade running. The dependency tests, test 
> transaction, downloading and install took about 6 hours total in about 
> equal chunks each. It downloaded and installed or upgraded 2505 packages 
> totaling about 1.8GB.
> 5. I then did find /etc -iname '*rpmsave' to look for any config file 
> issues to be merged. Found none needing attention - surprise.
> 6. Did /sbin/chkconfig to see if startup services had been changed. It 
> needed only minor attention.
> 7. Did /sbin/poweroff -r now and ran to server room to watch the 
> console. It seemed to shutdown cleanly and reboot cleanly except for...
> 8. Noticed that ntpd failed to get a time sync on reboot.
> 9. Came back in here and logged in via ssh.
> 10. Checked /var/log/messages about ntpd, said "network unreachable".
> 11. Investigation found it had no gateway (default route). ***BAD this 
> means the box was unreachable from the outside - this is a showstopper 
> for remote upgrades.
> 12. I added the gateway with 'route add default gw 192.168.0.1'
> 13. All seems well.

Did the gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network not get set (properly)?


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