[TriLUG] Upgrading an older Red Hat

[Dewey Hylton]

You can always try booting from the network. Older hardware may not offer this choice by default, but in those cases you can try PLOP boot manager or a few other methods to achieve PXE booting.  

On October 1, 2014 11:32:16 AM EDT, Mark Fowle <mfowle at adeliesystems.com> wrote:
>I have an old system (NetFinity 5100) .. I need to upgrade since its
>been
>running REHL 3AS for a very long time.   I want to upgrade to the
>current
>centos version - I am having trouble getting the old system to read the
>DVD's as well as CD's. I have also had it hang trying to install over
>the
>network. I swear this box just doesn't want to upgrade :-)
>
>Is there a way I could modify yum.conf and force an upgrade that way ? 
>Or
>some other trick to force it without using DVD or CD ?
>
>Thanks,
>Mark
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