� wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> we need to migrate several Desktop/Workstation installations to Server
> releases (or WS to ES respectively).
>
> I can imagine that official supported procedure is to reinstall.
>
> But is there any "known to work" procedure how to accomplish that
> without reinstallation, which, in this particular case, would be
> complicated?
>
> As far as I know, the systems come from the same codebase, so replacing
> few files should work, IMO. Has anyone tried that?

Like you, I would fully expect it to work.

I would look at the list of packages installed on an instance of each,
and look particularly closely at those not common to the two. I imagine
the difference would be as obvious as dogs whatsits.

{Re}registration is another issue, can't help there, but I don't expect
it would be difficult. If it is, there's always CentOS (which doesn't
differentiate).

I think it likely that an "upgrade" would do it too; an upgrade is (or
was years ago, maybe before RHEL) supported to the same release.


Come to think of it, bits of CentOS should give you the functionality,
though you'd have to read your documentation to see what it does to your
support agreements.

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Cheers
John

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