Thursday, January 18, 2007

Problems upgrading ESX 3.0 to 3.0.1

Hi,

Upgrading ESX 3.0 to ESX 3.0.1 with a remote repository is not really working for me.
Found a very helpfull post on http://www.vmug.nl/

Seems that it's better to upgrade yum-2.0.7-3vmw.noarch.rpm and VMware-esx-scripts-3.0.1-32039.i386.rpm manually first and then do the esxupdate. Vmware-Esx-Scripts contains the esxupdate script itself, and that script seems to use yum.

The way to do it : Go into the 32039 directory, as root and type :
1) rpm -Uvh yum-2.0.7-3vmw.noarch.rpm
2) rpm -Uvh VMware-esx-scripts-3.0.1-32039.i386.rpm
3) esxupdate -f update

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