Tonight was so frustrating. I was half way doing upgrade of an OES 2 SP3 (running on SLES 10 sp4). Wanted to upgrade to SLES 11 SP2 and OES 11 SP1.
Is there a way to just patch the server using installation source as the ISOs? Because I was upgrading it the traditional way (take backup, make a clone of the machine, shut down, insert SLES 11 CD, upgrade system, bring it up, OES patch, etc) And I was forced to stop half way because the customer expects things to be done within 2 hours or so with minimal downtime. I have previously patched using installation source but that was only to upgrade the service pack version, not the core OS build.
This is such a ridiculous requirement. Why is it that we can't just install a "move-to-oes-11-sp1" package from online updates? There must be a way to do this through online, but the severs are registered to get updates only for oes2 and sles 10.
Someone help me out this is getting just silly.
Is there a way to just patch the server using installation source as the ISOs? Because I was upgrading it the traditional way (take backup, make a clone of the machine, shut down, insert SLES 11 CD, upgrade system, bring it up, OES patch, etc) And I was forced to stop half way because the customer expects things to be done within 2 hours or so with minimal downtime. I have previously patched using installation source but that was only to upgrade the service pack version, not the core OS build.
This is such a ridiculous requirement. Why is it that we can't just install a "move-to-oes-11-sp1" package from online updates? There must be a way to do this through online, but the severs are registered to get updates only for oes2 and sles 10.
Someone help me out this is getting just silly.