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Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by Balazs

Problem
How to view folders from the Mac that hosts the VMWare Fusion guest operating system CentOS or Red Hat Linux?
Solution

First, make sure that the VMWare Tools are installed. That always helps.
Next, in the WMWare configuration menu of the guest, set up the desired shared folders. There might be already a default shared folder [...]

Tags: CentOS, OS X 10.6, RHEL, Shared Folders, VMWare, VMWare Fusion
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Posted on Friday, 6th November 2009 by Balazs

Summary
The AIX NIM server allows a very flexible automated installation process to deploy hundreds or AIX nodes as well as LPARs in a matter of hours. It is possible to achieve similar results using the RHEL kickstart system. This article is about a way of automating the RHEL 5 deployment directly from AIX [...]

Tags: AIX, IBM, Kickstart, NIM, RHEL
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Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs

During an audit, we noticed that one of our Red Hat 5 / CentOS 5 servers wasn’t getting the security patches.  Upon running the yum update command manually, we discovered that it fails with:
Error: kernel conflicts with e2fsprogs < 1.37-4
The problem turned out to be the presence of a number if 32bit packages. To [...]

Tags: CentOS 5, redhat 5, RHEL, x86_64
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