Re: 7.2 update instructions

[Yasha Karant]

As I am using SL 7.1, the answer below should suffice (assuming it works 
seemingly as advertised).
I fully understand from past experience that EL, unlike SLES, does not 
allow an upgrade in place for major releases,
only minor releases (e.g., upgrade in place SL 7.1 to SL 7.m for 
whatever m turns out to be).  For SL N to SL N+1, etc., one must be 
willing to sacrifice whatever is on the partitions that must be 
overwritten (/ , /boot , /usr, /bin/ , ...) but not on what can be 
"untouched" during the N to N+1 process (e.g., /opt , /usr/local if this 
is a separate partition from /usr , ... ).

As the "old" partition scheme is increasingly considered "obsolete", for 
the new layout scheme, how does one not overwrite the entire file system 
other than having two separate hard drives, a "system" one and and 
"non-system" (e.g., /home ...) one (for which the "hard drives" could be 
multiple drives in a RAID configuration, etc., but not "system")?


On 02/17/2016 07:12 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
If you;re already on SL 7.x, you should be able to mount the CD and do
"yum -y update/mnt/[whatever]/Packages/sl-release*.rpm" and get most
of the changes availabale.

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