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HOWTO: Convert from RHEL 5.3 to CENTOS 5.3

August 28th, 2009
Posted in Linux . Tech

This is actually a lot more simple than I was expecting. Recently our RHEL subscription for a backup server expired and couldn’t really justify the cost to renew it, so I decided to convert it to a CentOS installation by doing the below: yum clean all mkdir /usr/src/centos cd /usr/src/centos wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm wget [ READ MORE ]

Yum restore script

January 4th, 2009
Posted in Linux . Project . Random . Tech

Ok, so I’m about to do a reinstallation of Fedora (I made a boo-boo which would be easier to fix by a re-install than go through manually and try to fix). I have backups, but not of the lib folders etc, I do however have backups of the uber important folders e.g. /etc /home /root [ READ MORE ]

Fedora 10 clean install – update issue

December 8th, 2008
Posted in Random . Tech

This evening I installed Fedora 10 onto my desktop so I can use it as my primary OS – I’d had enough of Vista 64 Ultimate to last me a lifetime. Anyway, I didn’t expect the install to go amazingly smoothly, since I’m running relatively new hardware, however I was pleasantly surprised at just how [ READ MORE ]

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