Author Archives: Alastair Scobie

RHEL 6.1

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

RHEL 6.1 has been released. See RHEL 6.1 release notes and RHEL 6.1 technical notes for details.

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dracut

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

SL6 uses dracut for its initramfs. RH claims that dracut is much more capable and maintainable than the previous system. One feature of dracut is that it probes for devices (eg SCSI controllers) at boot time rather than relying on … Continue reading →

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LCFG SL6 installer now working

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

We’ve been using the LCFG F13 installer, so far, to install LCFG SL6 machines…. but we have now have a working LCFG SL6 installer.

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SL6 desktop

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

After a small amount of work to create a desktop package list, we now have working (and LCFG installable) SL6 desktops. The package list was built up from the following yum groups :- Desktop (basic-desktop) Desktop Platform (desktop-platform) Desktop Platform … Continue reading →

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inf layer

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

We use a lightweight instance of LCFG for developing new platforms as we’ve found that the complexity of the full Informatics instance (DICE) both lengthens the development process and makes it more risky. This lightweight instance, called the inf layer, … Continue reading →

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Base SL6 package lists

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

As with Fedora 13, we wish to have a lean base platform which can be added to; we don’t necessarily want desktop apps installed on servers. To save work, we wanted to use one of the SL6 install flavours for … Continue reading →

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Configuring stock SL6 to use DICE and LDAP changes

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

Configuring a stock SL6 box to use DICE kerberos, ldap and AFS was trivial. Kerberos and LDAP can be configured via the system/admin/authentication GUI. All that was required for AFS was to add a CELL=inf.ed.ac.uk to the end of /etc/sysconfig/openafs. … Continue reading →

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SL6 release candidate 1 released

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Alastair Scobie

The SL6 Release Candidate 1 has been released. We reckon it’s a good time to start the SL6 LCFG port project. The project has a home page.

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