topic Re: RHEL 3 to 5 in Operating System - Linux

RHEL 3 to 5

ossupport55 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:12:48 GMT

Dear all,

Has anyone done a upgrade from RHEL 3 to 5 on proliant DL 380 series. Suggestion,experience and help is appreciated.

Thanks

Re: RHEL 3 to 5

Rob Leadbeater — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:39:39 GMT

Hi,

You don't want to do that.

Taken from Red Hat Knowledge Base article DOC-1537

"Red Hat does not support or recommend in place upgrades across major versions of Enterprise Linux."

https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-1537

Cheers,

Rob

Re: RHEL 3 to 5

ossupport55 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:17:18 GMT

Thanks Rob,

Well, I hear that RHEL 3 becomes EOL in October. What are my options?. These are some critical services hosted on these nodes. Any workaround ?
R

Re: RHEL 3 to 5

Ricky_HK — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:27:16 GMT

if it is a critical server, I think you better build RHEL5 on a new server. Many packages in RHEL 5 got major upgrade, such as MySQL, PHP... you have to test your apps b4 upgrade.

Re: RHEL 3 to 5

Rob Leadbeater — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:07:48 GMT

Hi,

If you've got critical services running on RHEL 3 then it should hopefully be no surprise to you that it reaches the end of its Life Cycle in October...

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

As regards migrating to a later release, that really depends on what those services are...

Cheers,

Rob

Re: RHEL 3 to 5

Viktor Balogh — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:35:38 GMT

>What are my options?

In hope of an official answer I would rather ask my local Red Hat sales support...