Carl Boberg wrote: > Hell Karanbir! > > Thanks for your reply and yes, that was all that was needed! Only one > additional small thing is to remove the "rhnplugin" from yum (not > necessary but gives an error msg) > > I tried to figure this out by looking at RHEL 3/4 -> Centos3/4 guides > and testing it out on a test machine and that was NOT a working solution > :) > > Thanks again and now I have alot of machines to change :) > Cheers > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org >> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh >> Sent: den 30 augusti 2007 19:35 >> To: centos at centos.org >> Subject: [CentOS] Re: Migration question? >> >> Carl Boberg wrote: >>> My question is if anyone have any tips/tricks regarding online >>> migration from RHEL to Centos, especially between ver. 5? >> All that you should need to do is install centos-release, >> remove redhat-release rpms and just yum update the machine, >> which should bring in all packages changed by CentOS ( since >> they will have a slightly higher E-V-R ). >> >> End of Migration. >> >> Disclaimer: i've not tested this since there are no rhel >> machines near me, anywhere. >> try not top-posting please. also, now that you have done this - would you like to write a wiki page for everyone else who comes along with the same issue ? we have a moderately active wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/ and there is a howto contribute page that lists the process. - KB