This is the wrong list for such questions. please repost on a general list. And short answer to your question: Update from 7.0 to 9.0 can only be done if you boot into 9.0 using the CDs or any other boot media, live update is not possible, especially due to different versions of rpm, yast and others. Anas C. Evangelinos wrote:
Hi - an old machine that I've set up and has been down for quite some time has recently come back up. It's running SuSE 7.1 and I need to upgrade it to a version for which uptodate patches are provided, preferably 9.0 (but any from 7.3 and above will be better than staying at 7.1). The problem is that the machine is remotely located and I cannot simply pop in a CD and try to upgrade. The people that can do that cannot do much else so we're in a sort of a bind.
Basically what I need is a way to remotely upgrade a 7.1 system that is booted normally, connected via ssh and preferably using yast2 or yast. I've already downloaded the FTP version to a location on the hard disk of the system and tried to point both yast2 and yast to it and attempt the upgrade option of the menu (hoping that it can work in this manner though I'm not sure they are meant to by design). However the format of the files used for installation seems to have changed from 8.1 onwards and it complains that it can't find /suse/setup/descr/common.pkd I then downloaded the whole of SuSE 8.0 FTP version onto the disk of the system and tried to use yast/yast2 with it. yast2 seemed to work but the upgrade option actually failed to see that the 8.0 rpms were upgrades to the 7.1 and came up with 0 (zero) packages to update. yast refused to do anything useful early on because of the differences between the 7.1 and 8.0 distributions.
So the questions are: a) Can a "live" remote update from 7.0 to 7.3 or above be done connected via ssh using yast/yast2 or is it a lost cause? b) Can the upgrade be done directly to 9.0? If so how? c) If the answers to (a) and (b) are negative, any ideas on what can be done apart from installing the new O/S on a new disk, configuring everything and sending it over there?
Thanks for any help,
Constantinos Evangelinos