While waiting for CentOS 6.x, I've installed an "evaluation" copy of RHEL 6.0.
There's a few wrinkles to sort, but it works well enough for some testing and development.
What happens at the end of 30 day trial ?
I search the RH website, but there's nothing to say what to look forward to in 30 days.
Does it vaporize the flux capacitor, or does it keep working like a bought one ?
Something I read said no updates, but it wasn't doing any updates anyway, until I fixed the yum.repos.
TIA's
We're hoping the wait for CentOS 6.x won't be much longer.
RHEL Evaluation 30 days
Re: RHEL Evaluation 30 days
dear, i think after 30 days only support will stop but i am not sure about this.
Re: RHEL Evaluation 30 days
Yes, it's only the updates that will stop, your server will continue ton function.
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Re: RHEL Evaluation 30 days
I agree - it will keep working, you will just lose access to updates. At that point you have at least five viable choices, discounting living without updates as a viable option:
1. Buy a RHEL subscription.
2. Buy support from a commercial competitor.
3. Migrate to CentOS-6 if available by then.
4. Migrate to SL6.
5. Roll your own updates from available RHEL SRPMS.
Some of those could be done sequentially if the first choice doesn't work out.
1. Buy a RHEL subscription.
2. Buy support from a commercial competitor.
3. Migrate to CentOS-6 if available by then.
4. Migrate to SL6.
5. Roll your own updates from available RHEL SRPMS.
Some of those could be done sequentially if the first choice doesn't work out.
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4. Migrate to SL6.
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For the record, I've done it on a server that I installed in RHEL6, and it work perfectly. I just uninstalled a couple of rpm and installed others from SL, and did a yum update, and voilà.
(...)
4. Migrate to SL6.
(...)
[/quote]
For the record, I've done it on a server that I installed in RHEL6, and it work perfectly. I just uninstalled a couple of rpm and installed others from SL, and did a yum update, and voilà.
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Re: RHEL Evaluation 30 days
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pschaff wrote:
I agree - it will keep working, you will just lose access to updates. At that point you have at least five viable choices, discounting living without updates as a viable option:
1. Buy a RHEL subscription.
2. Buy support from a commercial competitor.
3. Migrate to CentOS-6 if available by then.
4. Migrate to SL6.
5. Roll your own updates from available RHEL SRPMS.
Some of those could be done sequentially if the first choice doesn't work out.[/quote]
Thanks everyone for tips and clues.
I especially like Options 3 or 4 above.
Cheers all
pschaff wrote:
I agree - it will keep working, you will just lose access to updates. At that point you have at least five viable choices, discounting living without updates as a viable option:
1. Buy a RHEL subscription.
2. Buy support from a commercial competitor.
3. Migrate to CentOS-6 if available by then.
4. Migrate to SL6.
5. Roll your own updates from available RHEL SRPMS.
Some of those could be done sequentially if the first choice doesn't work out.[/quote]
Thanks everyone for tips and clues.
I especially like Options 3 or 4 above.
Cheers all
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Re: RHEL Evaluation 30 days
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rossnick wrote:
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4. Migrate to SL6.
(...)
[/quote]
For the record, I've done it on a server that I installed in RHEL6, and it work perfectly. I just uninstalled a couple of rpm and installed others from SL, and did a yum update, and voilà.[/quote]
I've been thinking that something like this would work. Can you tell me what packages you replaced?
rossnick wrote:
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4. Migrate to SL6.
(...)
[/quote]
For the record, I've done it on a server that I installed in RHEL6, and it work perfectly. I just uninstalled a couple of rpm and installed others from SL, and did a yum update, and voilà.[/quote]
I've been thinking that something like this would work. Can you tell me what packages you replaced?
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Re: RHEL Evaluation 30 days
Untested, but goes something like this.
Find candidates for replacement:[code]
rpm -qa | grep -E "redhat|rhn" | sort[/code]
Remove selected packages:[code]
rpm -e --nodeps $(rpm -qa redhat-release\*) redhat-artwork redhat-logos redhat-menus ...[/code]
Download SL equivalents such as
sl-release sl-release-notes redhat-logos redhat-menus yum yum-autoupdate yum-conf-sl6x yum-utils ...
to a temporary directory, cd to the temporary directory, and[code]
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
yum update[/code]
Best place to ask for help on this is probably the [url=https://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists/]Scientific-Linux-Users ML[/url].
Find candidates for replacement:[code]
rpm -qa | grep -E "redhat|rhn" | sort[/code]
Remove selected packages:[code]
rpm -e --nodeps $(rpm -qa redhat-release\*) redhat-artwork redhat-logos redhat-menus ...[/code]
Download SL equivalents such as
sl-release sl-release-notes redhat-logos redhat-menus yum yum-autoupdate yum-conf-sl6x yum-utils ...
to a temporary directory, cd to the temporary directory, and[code]
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
yum update[/code]
Best place to ask for help on this is probably the [url=https://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists/]Scientific-Linux-Users ML[/url].
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Best place to ask for help on this is probably the [url=https://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists/]Scientific-Linux-Users ML[/url].[/quote]
Or the [url=http://scientificlinuxforum.org/]SL Forums[/url].
Best place to ask for help on this is probably the [url=https://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists/]Scientific-Linux-Users ML[/url].[/quote]
Or the [url=http://scientificlinuxforum.org/]SL Forums[/url].