Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:03:31PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> > I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by
> > working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4
> > and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for
> > a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4, but only found intro's in
> > the other direction :-)
> >
> > I'm sure others on this list have had the same challenge, can someone
> > give me some pointers to a quick online introduction? I'm looking for
> > stuff like how yum and up2date compare to aptitude, how to safely
> > install downloaded rpm's without interfering with yum's updates, if
> > there are equivalents of repositories like backports etc..
> >
> I would start by installing CentOS (in a Qemu instance or a Xen domU)
> and poke around.
Couldn't you have a minimal RHEL install and put debian in a Qemu or
Xen to do real work?
Doug.
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