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If you're going to Red Hat Enterprise, then you're most likely doing it so that you can have a supported platform. If this is the case, then you have to do a re-install as this is the only way that Red Hat will support the box.<br />
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Also, as far as the swap thing goes, I'd have a look at kerneltrap. If you need more than 2GB swap, you may want to consider multiple partitions as opposed to a single big partition.<br />
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Regards,
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If you're going to Red Hat Enterprise, then you're most likely doing it so that you can have a supported platform. If this is the case, then you have to do a re-install as this is the only way that Red Hat will support the box.

Also, as far as the swap thing goes, I'd have a look at kerneltrap. If you need more than 2GB swap, you may want to consider multiple partitions as opposed to a single big partition.

Regards,

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I am currently running Red Hat 9 and need to bring the box up to RedHat Enterprise 3. Is there anyway to do this besides a clean install? I have seen documentation regarding use yum to upgrading red hat 9 to fedora core 1 and 2. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.<br />
Thanks.
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I am currently running Red Hat 9 and need to bring the box up to RedHat Enterprise 3. Is there anyway to do this besides a clean install? I have seen documentation regarding use yum to upgrading red hat 9 to fedora core 1 and 2. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

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