[WBEL-users] Upgrading WBEL3 to WBEL4

[iron monkey]

Ah.  My appologies as I think I've asked the question poorly... 

my bad.

I wasn't asking about the legal and licensing/entitlement process of
upgrades although thanks for the clarification of that issue.

I was asking from a technical perspective regarding the upgrade
process.  That is to say, will anaconda upgrade RHEL3 to RHEL4.

If yes, that is outstanding, because then it will be possible to
perform the upgrade from WBEL3 to WBEL4.

In any case, thank's for the input.  



On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:35:27 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 17:48 -0600, iron monkey wrote:
> > ?!?!  You are kidding, right?
> >
> > If I purchased RHEL 3.0 and then wished to upgrade to 4.0, then the
> > upgrade would be unsupported?
> >
> > Huh?
> >
> > There has to be some sort of rational for his type of decision...
> > Possibly a play to drive business to their professional consulting
> > services or something?
> >
> > But OTOH, with the long release cycles of RHEL, one would think that
> > if you wanted to upgrade within that 5+ year timespan, you would
> > purchase new hardware, install the latest RHEL, and transfer data.
> >
> > Seems a little unusual though that there is no direct upgrade
> > support--wouldn't that help justify why you'd be paying the pricetag?
> >
> > But, Lke I said, I'm probably mis-understanding something...
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:43:46 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Red Hat considers RHEL v 2.x -> 3.x or 4.x as unsupported
> > > Likewise upgrades RHEL v 3.x -> 4.x is unsupported
> > >
> > > If you are going to have an 'unsupported' RHEL, why bother using RHEL?
> >
> > >
> > > <http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/>
> > >
> ----
> someone else suggested that Red Hat does support 'anaconda' upgrade from
> RHEL 3 to RHEL 4 - that isn't my understanding
> 
> There is no price for upgrades. If you have an entitlement - it can be
> used for any version of appropriate entitlement. I.E. If you have an
> entitlement for RHEL 3 - ES
> 
> You can freely download the RHEL 4 ES and install that instead (or
> upgrade) and use your entitlement for that. This is open source - they
> don't sell the software - only the entitlements
> 
> Craig
> 
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