General Upgrade Considerations
4-2
Express5800/
ftServer
: System Administrator’s Guide for the Linux Operating System
General Upgrade Considerations
When upgrading the Linux operating system or the
Express Builder
, be aware of the
following
requirements and related considerations.
Upgrade Requirements
First, ensure that the system’s BIOS and BMC firmware levels support the new
Express
Builder
version. You can obtain required versions of firmware from the ExpressBuilder for
Linux CD. If necessary, upgrade the firmware (see
Chapter 3
).
Optionally, upgrade the Linux operating system, as described in ‘‘
Upgrading or
Restoring the Linux Operating System’’ on page 4-3
. Before upgrading the operating
system software, check with the NEC Corporation of America Customer Support
Center or your authorized NEC service representative to ensure that your ftServer
system supports the new version.
Upgrade the
Express Builder
, as described in ‘‘
Upgrading or Restoring
Express Builder
’’on page 4-6
.
Related Considerations
The upgrade and reinstallation processes do not overwrite the following files, if you
have modified them:
•
/etc/modprobe.d/ft-network.conf
•
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
•
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond1
•
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth000010
•
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth000011
•
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth080010
•
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth080011
If the RPM file on an upgrade CD contains updated versions of these files and if you
have modified the original file, the upgrade process saves the updated file to the
/etc/OPT/ft/network-scripts/ARCHIVE
directory, giving each file a
.rpmnew
extension.
To complete an upgrade to your system, do one of the following:
•
If you do not want to preserve your changes, copy the
.rpmnew
file to the
appropriate directory, but remove the
.rpmnew
extension.
