March news¶

2017-03-29

RHEL 6.8 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Update 9 available¶

Dear Linux users.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Update 9 for i386/x86_64 platforms is available for installation at CERN, starting today.

AIMS2 PXE boot targets are as follows:

RHEL_6_9_I386
RHEL_6_9_X86_64

installation paths are:

http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/enterprise/rhel/server/6/6.9/i386/ http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/enterprise/rhel/server/6/6.9/x86_64/

Interactive network installations are possible from the 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' PXE boot menu.

Please note that Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server is a licensed product installable only on authorized systems. Therefore before you install your system please request a license assignment from linux support.

After installation, please do not forget to setup your system for updates: http://cern.ch/linux/rhel/#rhel6

Jarosław Polok for Linux.Support@cern.ch

2017-03-01

Updated TEST cloud / docker images available for SLC5/6 and CC7¶

Updated SLC5/6 and CC7 cloud and docker TEST images have been made available.

Cloud images:

CC7 TEST - x86_64 [2017-03-01]
SLC6 TEST - x86_64 [2017-03-01]
SLC6 TEST - i686 [2017-03-01]
SLC5 TEST - x86_64 [2017-03-01]
SLC5 TEST - i686 [2017-03-01]

available at https://openstack.cern.ch or from command line:

# openstack image list | grep 2017-03-01

Docker images:

cc7-base:20170301
slc6-base:20170301
slc5-base:20170301

available at:

https://gitlab.cern.ch/linuxsupport/cc7-base/container_registry https://gitlab.cern.ch/linuxsupport/slc6-base/container_registry https://gitlab.cern.ch/linuxsupport/slc5-base/container_registry

or from command line:

# docker pull gitlab-registry.cern.ch/linuxsupport/cc7-base:20170301 # docker pull gitlab-registry.cern.ch/linuxsupport/slc6-base:20170301 # docker pull gitlab-registry.cern.ch/linuxsupport/slc5-base:20170301

(above docker images are also available from https://hub.docker.com/u/cern/)

On Monday 06 March 2017 above images will replace current production releases ( Cloud: SLC5/6 - [2017-01-24], CC7 - [2017-02-08], Docker: - :latest).

Jaroslaw Polok for Linux.Support@cern.ch