RHEL 3.0

Hello Redhat suffers, ;-)

I´m facing the same problem you are facing. We have 3 DELL servers with 
Redhat 7.1 installed on it. I´ve been paying annual fees in order to 
maintain my servers updated. Now they (REDHAT people) changed the way of 
doing business (following Microsoft style) and are charging the 
licences. The problem is that there is not upgrade from RH7.1 to this 
new version. So, I´m in trouble since I made some arrangements "by hand" 
and due to this fact I CAN NOT INSTALL a clean version.

One suggestion that I will try: 1) Purchase RHEL3.0 and download this 
version and version "2.1"; 2) Install RHEL 2.1 as an upgrade (linux 
upgrade during boot from CD) into a RH7.1 installation; 3)Upgrade from 
RHEL 2.1 to 3.0 using the same artifice. This can be a solution to 
upgrade from 7.X, 8 and 9. Notice that I didnt test this yet and they 
informed me that this is not supported by Redhat, but could solve the 
problem. In other words, this can be done extra-officially. So, this can 
be a light in the end of the tunel.

Cheers (and many prays!!!).

Luis Marcelo Achite

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Luis Marcelo Achite
Information Technology Manager
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research - IAI
Avenida dos Astronautas, 1758, Jardim da Granja
12227-010 Sao Jose dos Campos - Sao Paulo - Brazil
Phone: (55-12) 3945-6868 Fax: (55-12) 3941-4410
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