Posts tagged with: redhat

Once upon a time I let it be known that I'd done a fair bit of "playing" with Linux and as a result I attended a RedHat training course. As a result of this, I've been given the task of being one of the primary x86/x64 engineers in the UK solution centre. With this responsibility came a lovely new Ultra 20 to keep my feet warm and the requirement that I need to be able to offer assistance in supporting all the *NIX varieties that Sun supports on it's hardware.Well, never put off my a new opportunity and a chance to play with learn something new, I gratefully accepted the Ultra 20 and set myself the task of installing RedHat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solaris 10 and Nevada onto the same disk on the same machine.I can happily report, I've done this now and thought I'd share my method.  Continue reading ►

As part of Sun's new range of x64 (x86) servers, Sun now sells support for RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). This is all well and good and certainly pushes Sun kit into "white box" territory, but we do have a bit of catching up on the knowledge side of things.I've been identified as a good resource to train up as I've already got a fair amount of Linux knowledge. As part of this, I was lucky enough to go on a customised (for Sun) RHEL training course. Whilst I didn't learn much new, one of the things I did learn about completely amazed me - gathering crash dumps on RHEL. I tell you now, I wasn't amazed at how good it was; quite the contrary.  Continue reading ►