On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:50:36PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:35 -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote:

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Is it possible to convert an RHEL 3 system into Centos 3 without reinstalling the OS?

Yes,

You can install yum, centos-release, centos-yumcache, centos-yumconf from the CentOS-3 mirror:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

Import the CentOS key:

http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=29

Then the command:

yum upgrade

Should get you totally upgraded.

Thanks, I'll try it. By the way, does using up2date still work for this purpose? It works fine with our local yum repository.

-akop

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:06 -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote:

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:50:36PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

...

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:35 -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote:

...

Is it possible to convert an RHEL 3 system into Centos 3 without reinstalling the OS?

Yes,

You can install yum, centos-release, centos-yumcache, centos-yumconf from the CentOS-3 mirror:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

Import the CentOS key:

http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=29

Then the command:

yum upgrade

Should get you totally upgraded.

Thanks, I'll try it. By the way, does using up2date still work for this purpose? It works fine with our local yum repository.

Yes ... you can install up2date and up2date-gnome from the the same CentOS-3 repo and use that as well.