John Summerfield wrote:
� wrote:
Hello everyone,
we need to migrate several Desktop/Workstation installations to
Server releases (or WS to ES respectively).
I can imagine that official supported procedure is to reinstall.
But is there any "known to work" procedure how to accomplish that
without reinstallation, which, in this particular case, would be
complicated?
As far as I know, the systems come from the same codebase, so
replacing few files should work, IMO. Has anyone tried that?
Like you, I would fully expect it to work.
I would look at the list of packages installed on an instance of each,
and look particularly closely at those not common to the two. I
imagine the difference would be as obvious as dogs whatsits.
{Re}registration is another issue, can't help there, but I don't
expect it would be difficult. If it is, there's always CentOS (which
doesn't differentiate).
I think it likely that an "upgrade" would do it too; an upgrade is (or
was years ago, maybe before RHEL) supported to the same release.
Come to think of it, bits of CentOS should give you the functionality,
though you'd have to read your documentation to see what it does to
your support agreements.
Simply uninstall the redhat-release-5Client rpm (you'll have to force it)
and then install redhat-release-5Server, which you can get from the rhn
website.
Then remove the machine from rhn, and reregister it, and you are done.
No need
to uninstall or play with CentOs. I've done this and it works fine.
Jerry Cooperstein
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