[Novalug] Need some guidance

[greg pryzby]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jeff Stoner <leapfrog at freeshell.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, James Swanson wrote:
>
> > I finally got a new job.  I now face a daunting task.  I have a bunch
> > of CentOS machines that need to be switched over to RHES.  Is there a
> > simple way to do this, or am I going to have to do something major?  I
> > believe the file systems would stay the same, but is there a simple
> > conversion between the two?  Thanks.
>

As a Red Hat employee I recommend you contact your sales person or solutions
architect for help.

As a community person, look at the packages installed and build a kickstart
file. You can use that ks file to build a RHEL machine. It should get you
close (package wise and maybe configuration) to what you had with CentOS.


> I called Red Hat and asked them about converting from CentOS to RHEL -
> it's a backup/fresh install/restore operation.
>
> You can try installing various Red Hat RPMs but if things get stuck, Red
> Hat won't be able to help you.
>
>
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