RE: Redhat-migration-list digest, Vol 1 #144 - 2 msgs

Hi:

There is no way to do this, I wrote to the technical support and they
said that we must do a clean install.
And putting the floppies they don't have this option from normal RH to
enterprise RH.

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:38:27 -0200
From: Luis Marcelo Achite <[email protected]>
Organization: Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, IAI
To: [email protected]
Subject: 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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