Tag Archives : RHEL

RHEL 5.5 Released yesterday

RHEL 5.5 Released yesterday

Redhat.com release another update of RHEL5 yesterday at 2010/03/30. This minor update releases typically provide feature enhancements, bugfixes and new hardware support. From the release notes:
How to skip updating certain packages by YUM

How to skip updating certain packages by YUM

I’m runing RHEL/CentOS for a group of database servers, and they mainly use MySQL for productive services. Recently I noticed that MySQL’s new feathers and bug fixes that comes from system updates make little sense to our needs, so I’m planing not to apply these changes on our live [...]
Update CentOS 4 to CentOS 5 remotely

Update CentOS 4 to CentOS 5 remotely

I just successfully updated my Dell PowerEdge 1850 from CentOS 4.8 to CentOS 5.4, luckily the issues I faced were not so rare. The steps I used are listed below, may it helpful for you as well! Although this post is mainly intended for CentOS it should work on RHEL systems as well. Before you start, [...]
Convert RHEL 5 to CentOS 5

Convert RHEL 5 to CentOS 5

Recently I was working on a Dell PE1950 at work and decided to get Xen installed, so that I can create some virtual servers for our developers. Finding out that Xen in Redhat Enterprise Linux is not so easy to download – I cannot find it from any public accessible websites, I decided to use CentOS’s [...]
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