Learning Red Hat

[leadpaint]

Greetings,

I just landed an internship where I'll be learning RHEL on the job. I have no prior experience with linux. I've been looking through the few online guides I could find, but none have been helpful so far.

Does anybody have anywhere to point me?

Thanks in advance.

 

[lxskllr]

Install CentOS on your computer or a VM, and play around with it. Imo, it's best to learn on a need to know basis. Outside of the very basics, if you try to learn too much, you'll take up valuable brain space with things you don't need.

 

[Jeff7181]

Buy a second hard drive for you computer, remove the existing one and install the new one. Install Fedora (it's a spinoff of Red Hat) and play around. Learn to do everything you do on your Windows PC in Linux. It should help you pick it up faster for your internship.

 

[Gillbot]

Buy a second hard drive for you computer, remove the existing one and install the new one. Install Fedora (it's a spinoff of Red Hat) and play around. Learn to do everything you do on your Windows PC in Linux. It should help you pick it up faster for your internship.

This ^

That's exactly how I learned. If you can, build another cheap-o system and install it on there. That way if you get stuck on something you can't figure out you can use your "main" PC to google a solution. I started out with Red Hat and I had 2 machines with one Keyboard/Mouse/Monitor using a KVM. I could switch back and forth between the Red Hat machine and my Windows machine so I could search for things without powering down and swapping drives or rebooting.

 

[VinylxScratches]

Why not just use VirtualBox and install it in a VM?

 

[Jeff7181]

Why not just use VirtualBox and install it in a VM?

That's another option, but I find when people do that and eventually get frustrated with something they're trying to do, they just do it on their host OS. If you're serious about learning Linux, the best way is to force yourself to use it.

 

[VinylxScratches]

The way I learned how to do it is Install Linux, put Windows in a VM and only fall back on Windows if I can't figure out something right away. I currently run OpenSuse 11.4 and run XP + 2008R2 in a VM

 

[bobross419]

Red Hat's manuals are pretty in depth with a breakdown of a whole lot of things going on inside the OS. Definitely familiarize yourself with the manuals at the least... Don't need to know everything, just need to know where to find it 😉

 

[Chiefcrowe]

speaking of RH, does anyone know if it is possible to install the latest version as a VM on a hyperV server?

 

[Jeff7181]

speaking of RH, does anyone know if it is possible to install the latest version as a VM on a hyperV server?

Microsoft doesn't officially support any non-Microsoft operating systems but that doesn't mean you can't try. Not sure why you'd want to though since vmware offers a free hypervisor that does support Linux distros.

 

[stlcardinals]

Microsoft doesn't officially support any non-Microsoft operating systems but that doesn't mean you can't try. Not sure why you'd want to though since vmware offers a free hypervisor that does support Linux distros.

You should probably do a little research before you post crud.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-supported-guest-os.aspx

Officially Supported Linux Distros with Tech support

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 3 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2, 5.3 , 5.4 and 5.5 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)

 

[Jeff7181]

You should probably do a little research before you post crud.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-supported-guest-os.aspx

Officially Supported Linux Distros with Tech support

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 3 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2, 5.3 , 5.4 and 5.5 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)

Last I knew, they didn't support any 'nix. Thank you for the correct information. And you're welcome... you know, for helping you feel better about yourself by being the target of your condescension. 😉

 

[Nothinman]

Last I knew, they didn't support any 'nix. Thank you for the correct information. And you're welcome... you know, for helping you feel better about yourself by being the target of your condescension. 😉

AFAIK they've supported SuSE and RHEL from Hyper-V's release and even submitted their guest drivers to be included in the Linux kernel under the GPL. This isn't some obscure fact, it's been there forever and someone speaking about Hyper-V's capabilities should know that.

 

[Jeff7181]

AFAIK they've supported SuSE and RHEL from Hyper-V's release and even submitted their guest drivers to be included in the Linux kernel under the GPL. This isn't some obscure fact, it's been there forever and someone speaking about Hyper-V's capabilities should know that.

I thought I remembered attempting a RH install on a Hyper-V guest, had trouble and after doing some research came to find that it wasn't supported so I dropped it and went with ESXi. A lot has happened since then, so maybe there was something specific about how I was doing it that was unsupported that I'm not remembering, not just the fact that it was a Linux guest.

 

[lxskllr]

AFAIK they've supported SuSE and RHEL from Hyper-V's release and even submitted their guest drivers to be included in the Linux kernel under the GPL. This isn't some obscure fact, it's been there forever and someone speaking about Hyper-V's capabilities should know that.

MS was one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel this last go around, and that was due to HyperV contributions.

 

[Nothinman]

I thought I remembered attempting a RH install on a Hyper-V guest, had trouble and after doing some research came to find that it wasn't supported so I dropped it and went with ESXi. A lot has happened since then, so maybe there was something specific about how I was doing it that was unsupported that I'm not remembering, not just the fact that it was a Linux guest.

Was it RHEL or Fedora? Because that makes a huge difference, but I'm pretty sure both RHEL and SuSE have both been supported since Hyper-V's release. But maybe you stumbled upon a forum post like yours saying otherwise? =)

 

[Jeff7181]

Was it RHEL or Fedora? Because that makes a huge difference, but I'm pretty sure both RHEL and SuSE have both been supported since Hyper-V's release. But maybe you stumbled upon a forum post like yours saying otherwise? =)

Definitely Red Hat. I want to say it had something to do with storage... like a problem booting from the SAN via iSCSI. But it was a non-issue with Windows as the guest OS or with ESX as the host.