End of Life times (Fedora Core 1, 2, Red Hat Linux 7.3, 9)

derek — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2006-July/msg00028.html

The Fedora legacy project has announced that they will discontinue errata updates starting in October. I have a few clients with servers still running 7.3 and 9. RHEL or CentOS is the currently the obvious choice to replace these old Red Hat installs.

Red Hat will provide errata for RHEL4 until February 2010 and RHEL3 is covered until October of 2008. Red Hat has stated they will support each RHEL release for 5 years.

I determined the following release dates from the RHEL listing on http://www.distrowatch.com

RHEL3: 2003/10/22
RHEL4: 2005/02/15

Migrate RHEL to CentOS

derek — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:41:00 +0000

For those of you interested in using CentOS instead of RHEL you don’t need to reinstall. By following these instructions you will convert an existing RHEL4 server over to CentOS 4:

I downloaded the following files from a CentOS mirror into an empty directory:

centos-release-4-2.1.i386.rpm
centos-yumconf-4-4.3.noarch.rpm
python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm
python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm
python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-2.noarch.rpm
RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
sqlite-3.2.2-1.i386.rpm
yum-2.4.0-1.centos4.noarch.rpm

Then ran:

rpm –import RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
rpm -e –nodeps redhat-release
rpm -Uvh *.rpm

then

yum upgrade

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End of Life times (Fedora Core 1, 2, Red Hat Linux 7.3, 9)

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