Hmmmm..... I thought I was already on stream, but apparently not. /etc/redhat-release says it is not stream. I looked for a method to upgrade. Found some notes at techrepublic. The first step is to install centos-release-stream, which fails. So what is the method for doing an upgrade? Bare metal reinstall is NOT an option. If that is the only way to do it, then I will just let this system run for a few years with no updates. =======Bill Gee On Monday, February 14, 2022 6:15:52 AM CST Pete Biggs wrote:> On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 05:55 -0600, Bill Gee wrote: > > Every time I run dnf, I get this: > > > > ========> > [root at vmhost2 ~]# dnf upgrade > > CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 70 B/s | 38 B 00:00 > > Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist > > ========> > > > I tried disabling the repository, but that only gives me exactly the > > same error for the baseos repository. I doubt it is a problem in the > > .repo files. Something else is going on. > > > > Ping to mirrorlist.centos.org works on both ipv4 and ipv6, so I know > > that both name resolution and network connectivity are working. > > > That's because you are still on CentOS 8 not 8-stream. The C8 > repositories are now empty. (The equivalent repo for 8-stream is > labelled "CentOS Stream 8 - AppStream".) > > To move to 8 Stream, see https://centos.org/download/ > > You will also probably soon get some recommendations to not move to 8 > stream and to use one of the other clone distros ... > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 06:36 -0600, Bill Gee wrote:> Hmmmm..... I thought I was already on stream, but apparently not. > /etc/redhat-release says it is not stream. > > I looked for a method to upgrade. Found some notes at techrepublic. > The first step is to install centos-release-stream, which fails. So > what is the method for doing an upgrade?I gave you the link for the official way of doing it: https://centos.org/download/ Click on the "CentOS Stream" purple bit at the top, then on the '8' purple bit. Then scroll down to "Converting from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8". If your machine hasn't been updated for a while, you might need to add '--allowerasing' to the comand line to swap the distros. If it doesn't work, then please let the list know any error messages so someone can help you. P.
Le 14/02/2022 ? 13:36, Bill Gee a ?crit?:> Hmmmm..... I thought I was already on stream, but apparently not. /etc/redhat-release says it is not stream. > > I looked for a method to upgrade. Found some notes at techrepublic. The first step is to install centos-release-stream, which fails. So what is the method for doing an upgrade? > > Bare metal reinstall is NOT an option. If that is the only way to do it, then I will just let this system run for a few years with no updates.As mentioned by Pete Biggs, you can also move to another RHEL clone, which have all the updates, for example Rocky Linux, or Alma Linux. There is a script to do it : https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/migrate2rocky/ It is not recommended to not have any updates for years... Alain -- Administrateur Syst?me/R?seau C2N Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies (UMR 9001) Boulevard Thomas Gobert (ex Avenue de La Vauve), 91120 Palaiseau Tel : 01-70-27-06-88 Bureau A255