[ILUG] RHEL Clone

[James McCarthy]

if it's centos3.4
add the line
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
to /etc/redhat-release
and then EVERYTHING else is the same.
ive succesfuly installed oracle 9iR2 on CentOS so anyone having
trouble i can help.

On 5/12/05, David Golden <david.golden at oceanfree.net> wrote:
> 
> > I could be wrong on this, but from what I've read, the only
> > difference between RHEL and CentOS, are (a) different Logos, and (b)
> > compiled by different people, and (c) RedHat Support(or lack
> 
> The /etc/redhat-release content is different too. :-)
> 
> That was enough to break [an obviously incredibly brittle...] installer
> that was substring matching on the content of that file in my tests of
> CentOS.
> 
> Changing /etc/redhat-release (don't have the exact string to hand, you
> get the idea)  to "Redhat  (compatible; CentOS 4)"
> in the manner of workaround browser ID strings of course fixed that, but
> I'm embarrassed to admit it took several minutes of head scratching to
> work out what was wrong.
> 
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