S.Tux wrote: > I'm not so sure if I'm asking right question so please forgive me; I > have RHEL AS 4 media with me here; my company have an active > subscription to RHN from for a limited number of servers only. If I > add more servers more than allowed channel subscription; up2date > doesn't work as you know. That's why I'm introducing CentOS to my > company. Now, I just wondering, is there any way I can update a RHEL > box using other means rather than RHN? Excluding the manual FTP > download and manual RPM installation; is there any other source and > means I can use. > > Again, I hope I'm asking this question safely here. Since I asked > already similar question to RH mailing lists; and they arrogantly > pointed me here in CentOS - well thanks to them; I found a new home > and a new distro. > > Regards, > str > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have switched many machines from RHEL to Centos simply by replacing the redhat-release rpm with the centos-release rpm, installing the CentOS supplied yum rpm and running yum update. This has worked without issue on RHEL3 boxen. I've not ventured into 4 yet. Mike