[YLUG] Install day and RedHat Query : Thank you

[Varsani, Rajendrakumar (PSD)]

Dudes, you guys kill me with your quirky pet names!  ; )

Thanks for that tho. 

I'm afraid it's going to have to be a flavour of DeadRat as that's the
way our little Government Agency is going. No data to save so flattening
it [the partition?] is not an issue. Our local Linux guru also suggested
Centos so two gurus saying the same thing must be right!(?)  :oP

Do you have any tips on where to learn to speak, pilot and master
DeadRat/Centos? From an ageing ex-Unix skills standpoint?

Rajendrakumar.Varsani at psd.defra.gsi.gov.uk
Tel: 01904 455805

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:41 +0100, Varsani, Rajendrakumar (PSD) wrote:
> At work we're going the RedHat way not SuSe now so I'd appreciate some

> advice on how to get this onto my laptop. I'd write over the SuSe that

> you chaps did for me at the last install day.

Ugh - this could be messy (as in its likely to be best to strip what you
want off the old install, flatten it, and put the wanted data back
again).

However initially there is the question of what you mean by Red Hat. Do
you mean:-
      * Old Red Hat Linux (version 9 or below) - you really do not want
        to put that on any box, let alone a relatively current laptop.
      * Red Hat Enterprise (version 2.1, 3.x or 4.x) - normally refered
        to as RHEL, but there is also several minor variants.
      * Fedora Core


> Is this going to be available on Install Day? If not, can someone 
> point me to the right channels for getting the latest RedHat disks 
> please?

Fedora might well be around on an install day.
Old RHL should not be installed - several year old distributions are not
safe to install once they are out of maintenance updates. RHEL cannot be
installed due to licensing restrictions (thats an over simplification,
but will do for now), you could as an alternative use something like
Centos - http://www.centos.org/ - thats our current favoured server
distro, and I know people do use it on laptops although I would expect
some laptop hardware to be poorly supported.

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
[ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]


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[mailto:york-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Ward
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [YLUG] Install day and RedHat Query

Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> However initially there is the question of what you mean by Red Hat.
> Do you mean:-
>       * Old Red Hat Linux (version 9 or below) - you really do not
want
>         to put that on any box, let alone a relatively current laptop.
>       * Red Hat Enterprise (version 2.1, 3.x or 4.x) - normally
refered
>         to as RHEL, but there is also several minor variants.
>       * Fedora Core
   All of which seem to exemplify 'Broken By Design' if my recent 
support nightmares at work are anything to go by ... personally, I 
wouldn't touch *any* version of DeadRat with an 11ft pole.

Simon

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