#78 upgrade system to use RHEL RPMs

[Robert Lehr]

the newinstall and prdist scripts can still be used.
preserve the current rh9 configuration, if possible,
since RHEL is licensed.
only the RPMs need to be upgraded.

[Kiran Yagnavajhala]

Ticket moved from /p/ceps/feature-requests/76/

Can't be converted:

• _milestone: not_assigned
• _priority: 9
• assigned_to: bozzio (user not in project)