is it possible/difficult to upgrade from RHEL WS to RHEL AS

[Donna Hanlon]

Hi all,

Just to close the loop on this thread:

    * RedHat customer service confirmed that there is no educational 
version of WS -- just RHEL AS and RedHat desktop.
    * Tom Diehl's fix worked beautifully:  I got the redhat-release and 
comps packages off RHN; installed them; and rhn_register was happy.  I 
was able to apply the numerous errata patches, so I was very happy. 
 Thanks once again to Tom Diehl for the useful tip!

Donna

On 10/22/2004 12:00 PM, Tom Diehl wrote:

>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Donna Hanlon wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>We bought an academic RHEL AS subscription for myhost1, but didn't buy
>>media, because we already had media for myhost2 running RHEL with a
>>subscription through Dell.  We installed RHEL on myhost1 -- not
>>realizing it was Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon) and our
>>subscription was for AS.  So, when I tried to add the system and assign
>>the channel, I got "This assignment would exceed your allowed
>>subscriptions."
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>>Is there an easy way to upgrade?  If not, how hard is it to install AS
>>without CDs (Dell Precision 340)?  We really only need WS, but there is
>>no academic WS RHEL.
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>Grab the redhat-release package from RHN and install it on your machine. 
>This will make RHN happy. In addition if you have the comps and/or
>anaconda packages installed you need to install the equivalent from RHN.
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>FWIW the only actual difference between the packages on AS/ES/WS/and RHPW
>are a few of the server packages plus things like the redhat-release, anaconda
>and comps packages. Everything else is the same.
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>In reality the real diffs are the support options. That is what you are really
>paying for.
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>HTH,
>
>Tom
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