Burning an ISO so it’s bootable Once you have the ISO downloaded, you may need to do some additional preparations. If you are installing using a USB device, simply copying the file to a flash drive will not work, as the ISO is not actually unpacked on the media. If the ISO is not correctly […]
Two for the price of one – running Oracle Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Two for the price of one – running Oracle Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) There is one last way to install Oracle Linux on Microsoft Windows desktops, with WSL. WSL lets you easily install Oracle Linux directly on Windows without the need to install a traditional VM such as VirtualBox. WSL includes an […]
Arm’ing for the future of IT – it’s not just a slice of Raspberry Pi – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Arm’ing for the future of IT – it’s not just a slice of Raspberry Pi First, let’s chat about Oracle Linux on advanced RISC machines, more commonly known as Arm CPUs. This newer architecture has many advantages over the older x86_64 architecture that Intel and AMD use. This includes lower power consumption; lower latency, enabling […]
Arm’ing for the future of IT – it’s not just a slice of Raspberry Pi 2 – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Getting ready Before you start, you will need a Raspberry Pi with a Micro SD slot. You also will need a Micro SD card that can be used to install the OS. If you are using a Raspberry Pi compute module, or an enterprise Arm server such as an Ampere system, jump to Chapter 2 […]
Leapping from Oracle Linux 7 to 8 – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Leapping from Oracle Linux 7 to 8 A challenge system admins often face is what to do when you have an older OS deployed and it’s about to reach the date when support ends. It happens, and it’s not fun. This will put you in a position to reinstall the newer OS on new systems, […]
Time to take the Leapp and start phase two – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Time to take the Leapp and start phase two Now that we’re set, it’s time to make the jump forward! As with the Leapp pre-upgrade, how you Leapp in OCI is slightly different than other environments: Figure 1.18 – Leapp upgrade starting 2. Leapp will take some time. Did you remember to make your backup? […]
Migrating from CentOS to Oracle Linux – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Migrating from CentOS to Oracle Linux The first question is why? Why are we talking about moving from CentOS to Oracle Linux? Before we explain this, let’s chat a little bit about the surprise that IBM Red Hat dropped on the Linux community on December 8, 2020. CentOS as we know it is dead! It […]
CentOS is dead as we know it, have you looked at Oracle Linux yet? – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
CentOS is dead as we know it, have you looked at Oracle Linux yet? Oracle Linux tracks RHEL, using OpenELA as their base code going forward, so Oracle Linux 8.3 is basically the same as RHEL 8.3 or CentOS 8.3 or even RockyLinux 8.3. It’s used by over 86% of the Fortune Global 100, making […]
CentOS is dead as we know it, have you looked at Oracle Linux yet? 2 – Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good!
Getting ready Before you start, you will need a system running Scientific Linux 7.x and 8.x, Rocky 8.x, and CentOS 7.x and 8.X. If your CentOS system is CentOS Stream, the script will not work. There are a few other things to think about before running the Oracle script, as follows: How to do it… […]
Automating the OS install options with kickstart 2 – Installing with and without Automation Magic
This is the time zone for the server: # System timezonetimezone America/New_York –isUtc An encrypted root password can be set on the new system. Normally, the password is encrypted, but optionally, you can use the –-plaintext option with a plaintext password. You can also generate an encrypted password using the python3 -c ‘import crypt,getpass;pw=getpass.getpass();print(crypt.crypt(pw) if […]