10.2. Upgrading to Satellite 5.8

Procedure 10.4. Mounting from a disc

1. Log into the machine as root.
2. Insert the Red Hat Satellite Server CD or DVD containing the installation files.
3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux might automount the disc. If so, it mounts the disc to the /media/cdrom/ directory. If Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not automount the disc, manually mount it to the /media/cdrom/ directory with the following command:

   # mkdir /media/cdrom
   # mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
   

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Procedure 10.5. Mounting from an ISO image

1. Log into the machine as root.
2. Download the ISO image from the Red Hat Network website.
3. Mount the ISO image to a location on your filesystem:

   # mkdir /media/cdrom
   # mount -o loop iso_filename /media/cdrom
   

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Procedure 10.6. Download and Install Red Hat Satellite 5 Upgrade Package

1. Log on to the Customer Portal and click Downloads.
2. From the Product list, click Red Hat Satellite.
3. Select the Product Variant, Version and Architecture which match the current, installed instance of Satellite. For example, Red Hat Satellite, 5.6 for RHEL 6, and x86_64.
4. Click Packages and enter upgrade in the Search field.
5. Click Download Latest beside the rhn-upgrade package, and download it.
6. Copy the rhn-upgrade.rpm package to the Satellite server.
   If you have network access to the Satellite server from this computer, use the scp tool. In this example, the package is copied to the /root directory.

   # scp rhn-upgrade.rpm root@satellite.example.com:/root
   

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   If you do not have network access to the Satellite server from this computer, copy the package to local media, transport the media to the Satellite server, and copy it from there.
7. On the Satellite server, navigate to the directory containing the rhn-upgrade.rpm package, and install it.

   # yum localinstall rhn-upgrade.rpm
   

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