On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:52 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Olt, Joseph <[email protected]> said: > > Tom and Chris, > > > > I don't have the reference off hand, but I believe the recommendation of > > reinstalling and not upgrading was from RHEL3 to RHEL4 because of the > > kernel going from 2.4.x to 2.6.x. It may have been in the release notes. > > However, it was only recommended to reinstall, it didn't say you couldn't. > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html
And my reference was from 5.3: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.3/html/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html So basically they changed the text from RHEL5.3 to RHEL5.4 to change it from "supported" to "technically possible but not supported". Interesting. I've upgraded hundreds of systems over the years with only one problem that I remember (a glitch going from RHEL3 to RHEL4 which was caused by SElinux not completing the task to relabel the filesystem, easily fixed afterwards). Still, I guess I understand your point, now Redhat's claiming it's not supported and that's a big deal. Does that mean even if the system works after your done you don't have a supported system, or are they simply failing to support the actual task of "upgrading". Later, Tom _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
