Re: OFFTOPIC: upgrading distro without rebooting

[Bryan J. S. <b.j...@ie...>]

Jake Skinner wrote:
> I'm curious too

Er, I've upgraded distros without rebooting before.
Use RPM to do a "live" upgrade, including GLibC.
The only kicker is the kernel, but that's it.

I also wouldn't try upgrading "live" when you're changing the X in
X.Y RedHat releases (e.g., 6.2 to 7.0), but the Y in X.Y (e.g., 7.0
to 7.2) has been fine.  In fact, I've done this with RedHat 5.x, 6.x
and 7.x with fairly good results.

-- Bryan

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