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Desktop Entreprise upgrade license

Although certainly never as confusing as Windows, SCO had enough licensing models to sometimes be confusing. At one pont they even had a free, single user system - but that was long after Linux appeared.

Had they offered that free version earlier, Linux might never have existed - Linux Torvalds said he just wanted a Unix system but could not afford it.

Good thing for us that SCO was greedy..

From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
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Subject: Re: Info about upgrade (5.0.5 to 5.0.6)
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:04:02 GMT


"John Boland" <jboland@sco.com> wrote in message
news:3B8FB6EA.714E671@sco.com...
>
> > Because I don't have to save my previous installation (all the software
> > will be reinstalled because we want a 'new and clean machine') I think
the
> > best choice is to do a Fresh install.
> > One basic way could be also reformatting the disk and install 5.0.6
> > Enterprise enterly. The Fresh install do something like that? There any
> > other way to do that?
>
> It i not possible to do this. You will need to
> fresh install the Desktop and then upgrade to Enterprise
> as described in the last posting.
>
> Sorry,
>
> John

jumping in to clarify...

It's not that it can't be done, it's that you don't have that type of
license.
You don't have a regular stand-alone enterprise licence, you have a desktop
license, and a desktop-enterprise upgrade license.

If you enter the desktop-enterprise upgrade license at the first install
prompt, it will correctly deny you from performing a full fresh enterprise
install with only an upgrade license, which costs a lot less than a full new
license. otherwise we could all by cheap upgrades only and get full installs
with them. :)

So in your case you must follow the path of your licenses. install desktop,
then upgrade to enterprise.

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