On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ed Wilts wrote:
You could also attempt to migrate from RHEL to one of the rebuilds like Tao, CentOS, or White Box Linux. I've never tested this and don't know what issues you will run into. It probably shouldn't be tried for people who want it "to be very basic for dummies".
It is not so hard; the process has not changed much. First read and heed:
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/centos-31-ex-rhl-9/
Review the Ceontos and Caosity project websites, and decide if the project has what you need.
http://centos.caosity.org/ -and-
http://www.caosity.org/
And once your backups are done, basically:
1. Get rid of a possible conflict rpm -e redhat-release
2. Fetch the Centos signing key into RPM rpm --import \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3
3. Install yum: rpm -ivh \ http://mirror.centos.org:/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/yum-2.0.8-1.centos.7.noarch.rpm
4. Edit the yum.conf to contain:
[base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1
#released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1
5. Do the first part of the cutover: yum -y upgrade rpm glibc rpm -vv --rebuilddb
6. Do a reboot, to set the new libraries
7. Do the rest of the cutover: yum -y upgrade
-- Russ Herrold
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