On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:27 -0800, Francois Caen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a couple RHEL WS 3.4 boxes that I purchased last year. At the
> time, the retail-boxed Linux Pro Workstation was in the $60-80 range
> with supposedly $99 yearly maintenance.
>
> It doesn't look like I can renew the maintenance for $99 any more.
> And why bother, I'd rather use CentOS RPMs :-)
>
> My question is: is getting CentOS 3.4 updates on RHEL 3.4 as simple a
> going from WBEL to CentOS as described here?
> http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19
>
> - install centos-release
> - install centos yum
> - yum update
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
Basically, yes ... it is that easy.
I would run:
yum upgrade
-------------------------
Before running "yum upgrade", install:
centos-yumcache
This will download the headers at one time for several of the files ...
saving time on the "yum upgrade".
--
Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>
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