migrate RHEL3 to CentOS3.7 on PE2850

[Ted Targosz]

Thanks Florencio and the rest of you Dell Linux users...

I would like to report that we were successful  in our migration today.

we performed the following steps to migrate a RHEL 3.0 machine to centos
3.7

backup all data

Import GPG Keys: rpm --import
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3

Install yum: rpm -Uvh --nodeps
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/yum-2.0.8-1.centos.7.noarch.rpm
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumconf-1-11.noarch.rpm
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumcache-3.1-0.20060404.3.noarch.rpm

Update Release information: rpm -e redhat-release-3ES-13.6.2 && rpm -ivh
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-release-3-7.1.i386.rpm

then just:   
yum  upgrade

and voila,  after all downloaded and installed (and a reboot because of
kernel upgrade)...we were running on Centos 3.7   (and getting free
updates/patches) 

couldn't have been any smoother....



On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 08:41 -0300, Florencio Queiroz wrote:
> Hello Ted,
> 
> I "kicked the dog" and use CentOs 3.7 with no problems at all, but on 
> one PE-830. I use CentOs 4 on others 3 PE-830 and CentOs 2.1 on a PE2800 
> and it's working very well too. I think CentOs is excellent and it is 
> the better (and cheap) alternative to RedHat. CentOS is a real clone of 
> certified RedHat, so it's great for your server.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Florencio
> 
>  >We've got a PE2850 with hardware RAID which has been running RHEL3 for 
> a couple of years with no problem... now i'm planning to "kick a 
> sleeping dog" and migrate it to CentOS 3.7 >I was curious if anyone had 
> encountered any problems with CentOS3.X on a PE2850 or if anyone else 
> had "kicked the dog" in this way and would like to share what happened 
> when they >did...?
>  >-- Ted Targosz Business Development/Operations Manager Jobstreet.com
> 
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Ted Targosz
Business Development/Operations Manager
Jobstreet.com

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