[rhn-users] upgrading to RHEL WS version 3

[Paul A. Kennedy]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:49:07PM +0100, Gordon Chung wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm currently on RHEL WS version 2.1 and having looked at the man page for
> up2date (up2date-2.9.3-2.2.1AS), cannot figure out whether I can upgrade
> to version 3 or not.
> 
> I've tried putting in the version 3 install cd to see if there is an
> upgrade option to the install but there doesn't seem to be. I suppose I
> could do an install and preserve existing data by not reformatting the
> hard disk but would that not leave me with 2 versions of the each package.
> 
> Any advice appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Gordon
> 

>From the documentation, there is an upgrade option ("linux upgrade" from the
boot prompt).

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/ap-upgrade.html

Hope this helps,
Paul