RedHat Enterprise Installations require a full rebuild, there's no upgrade path into RHEL. Once you're at RHEL, subsequent releases won't require drastic measures.
I installed RHEL 3 on a PowerEdge 2650, and had horrible times with the RAID driver. If your server runs the Perc3/Di driver, you'll want to do a little research before plunging into RHEL. There's a good website available for this, go to linux.dell.com. You can find a mailing list where people discuss this issue constantly.
Good luck,
Norman
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Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790
On Apr 6, 2004, at 3:49 PM, María Viola Deambrosis wrote:
<x-tad-bigger>Hi,</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>We have a production Database Server, with</x-tad-bigger>
a <x-tad-bigger>professional Red Hat O.S installed.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Here is detail information about it:</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Hardware:</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>·</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-smaller> </x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-bigger>DELL Power Edge 2600 </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Database</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>·</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-smaller> </x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-bigger>Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>O.S</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>·</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-smaller> </x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-bigger>Red Hat 7.3</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>·</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-smaller> </x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-bigger>Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-3smp / Apr 18 07:27:31 2002 i686</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>·</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-smaller> </x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-bigger>Glib: 2.2.5-34</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>We are planning on </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>moving</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> from the Professional version </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>into</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> the </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Since the business is a 7x24x365 one, and the DBSrv is the production one, we have few </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>questions/doubts:</x-tad-bigger>
• <x-tad-bigger>moving from a Professional into an Enterprise version, is it just an upgrade or it requires a "re-installation"</x-tad-bigger>
• <x-tad-bigger>how long will it take</x-tad-bigger>
to do the job
• <x-tad-bigger>do you have any contingency plan or strategy to suggest</x-tad-bigger>
• <x-tad-bigger>is there any guaranty of full compatibility between both versions?</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Thanks for your assistance</x-tad-bigger>
María
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