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Doing a minimal installation for RHEL 5.3 with kickstart

When installing RHEL 5, it doesn’t matter if you deselect all the packages during the installation. You’ll still end with the @dialup and @java groups. If you do a kickstart installation, you can set your %packages to @core @base -@dialup … Continue reading

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Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Mark J Cox, the Director of the Red Hat Security Response Team, published an update to RHEL 4 risk report: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 was released on February 15th, 2005. This report takes a look at the state of … Continue reading

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My thoughts on RHEL 5.1 installation

I decided to test RHEL 5.1 to check what changed since RHEL 4. As I usually do a network installation, I had a few surprises. The installation was done with qemu (with kqemu module) on an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ … Continue reading

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Who moved my PEs (or why does pvmove sucks on linux) ?

Yesterday I wanted to extend an existing LVM VG with some central storage disks. In the process, I notice the VG is built upon local & external disk, which isn’t according to my standards. So I decided to extend the … Continue reading

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