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converting a RHEL machine into CentOS

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Google found nothing in this list archives for me but did find this :
http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-jul-convert-rhel-5-to-centos-5/

Before I just go try that on one of my systems can someone confirm that it works?

I'm running RHEL 5.7 so I guess I'd replace the 5.4 in the URL with 5.7. Basically I let my RHEL licenses run out (never really used them) and am getting warnings now from yum. Want to just switch over to the CentOS repos.

posted Sep 10, 2013 by Sonu Jindal

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This CentOS wiki article will help you:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide
(section "Migration an existing system from RHEL5 to CentOS 5")

answer Sep 10, 2013 by Seema Siddique
Here is what I did

mkdir /root/centos
cd /root/centos
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.0/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-5-0.0.el5.centos.2.x86_64.rpm
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.0/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-notes-5.0.0-2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes redhat-release yum-rhn-plugin redhat-logos
rpm -ivh *.rpm
yum -y update

And it all looks good!
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