James, This is kind of tough call. It may or may not be less work to take this approach, versus installing a 2.4-based system, and transferring the necessary configuration files to it. How much have you done to the system after the install, that "manually re-creating the environment" would be a hassle?
If you do decide to do it, you'll need to pretty much follow the course you laid out, but there will be a number of other packages that will need to be upgraded. Probably (at least?): gettext binutils gcc glibc modutils strace gdb There may be others. The order you do it in will be important also, due to the change in the Linux/390 ELF magic number that was introduced in 2001. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upgrading a SuSE 7.0 system to a 7.2 (2.4.9?) kernel in place What's the best way to do an in-place upgrade of an existing, functioning and running Linux system, using the SuSE provided tools (such as Yast) I am trying to avoid creating a new 2.4 system and manually re-creating the environment. What I need to do is to update the system to 2.4 on the LDL dasd I have, and then format the new dasd as CDL and copy the existing volumes to the corresponding CDL volumes, adjust the /proc/dasd bits and IPL.
