To Upgrade from Red Hat 4 to Cent OS 4.7 Using Yum
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November 14, 2014 10:39 AM
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You can migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to CentOS 4.7 using yum through SSH.
- Connect to your server via SSH (more info).
- Switch to the root user (more info).
- Run the following commands to upgrade to Cent OS 4.7:
yum clean all
mkdir ~/centos
cd ~/centos/
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-release-4-7.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
yum upgrade
