Re: RHEL 2.1 compatability question.

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I had a computer that came from Dell with RHEL 3 on it. Unfortunately the
software that we needed to run for experiments only worked on RHEL 2.
I had to downgrade. Neither Dell or RedHat would support the downgraded
system.


On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 10:35 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:

Ed Wilts wrote:

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:43:41AM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:

This system is going to be my primary computing environment server, and no one will log into it. It won't run anything esoteric. I should think that I could at least download and compile my own versions of things, to provide services such as dhcp, dns, samba shares, mail, etc., yes?

For all this, you can do the job with RHEL 2.1. However, if you can get
a good solid install of RHEL3 done, you'll be set for 5 years with
continuing support.


That would be quite nice. Another poster mentions this link:

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/21features

where I read:

"[C]ustomers who purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux may download either version 2.1 and/or version 3, depending on their requirements. Note that all Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions include the right to upgrade to new versions at no additional cost."

So, the only impediment to my upgrading seems to be 1) whether or not Dell will have a hissy fit, and 2) if there are any hardware compatibility issues.

Another poster said you couldn't install RHEL 3 on your hardware.  I'm
not familiar with your hardware, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't
make it work in a supported manner.  Dell has been pretty good with
their Linux support and one of their techies posts here regularly.
I guess that's the burning question, then.

   -ste

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