Need to apply RHEL5.1 without entitlement

nitrohuffer2001 · 07-28-2008, 06:20 PM

Hey Fellas, I have an unentitled RHEL5 box and I need to bring it up to Update5.1. I have a valid RHEL login...how do I get to update5.1 aka RHEL5.1 without having an entitlment?

Thanks.

trickykid · 07-29-2008, 12:27 AM

Umm, you don't through Red Hat's updates through RHN. My only suggestion is you convert to use something like the CentOS mirrors and point your yum repositories that way to update.

nitrohuffer2001 · 07-29-2008, 01:07 PM

I thought I could just download the rpm's that I needed through the RHN site. I may take a look at pointing yum at the cent repos, thats a good idea.

trickykid · 07-29-2008, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nitrohuffer2001

I thought I could just download the rpm's that I needed through the RHN site.

Well, you could but what a tedious process that would be.

Roger Salisbury · 08-02-2008, 10:53 AM

.. it will turn Redhat attributions to Centos.

Nothing wrong with that... Just be aware!

ehawk · 08-03-2008, 12:54 AM

My reply to this other thread seems apropos, so I am linking the thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...talled-659982/

dyasny · 08-05-2008, 03:10 AM

what you can do, and lots of people do that - remove entitlement from the box that you have the RHN license for. Register the box you want to update, and run the update

but I'd simply use CentOS, if I were looking for freebies like this.