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Back again, hope you made it through the install, and I hope it was better than I . So now onto Part II (more like Part 1.5). Go ahead and check your network connectivity, ping, traceroute, and so on. Connect to the server via SSH. And now to run some updates.

First let’s su - to root (you didn’t log in as root did you? You are a bad admin!), and run:

yum update

Now the server will connect to the internet, and check the repositories for updates. It will probably come back and ask if you wish to download the updates, I would say yes, as well as importing the GPG keys (for checking the validity of the packages). This is a Beta release and so I do not think you will run into many packages to be updated. Let’s have a quick look at our system shall we. Do a:

uname -r
2.6.18-1.2747.el5

That’s our kernel version, 2.6.18, not bad, the current kernel release is 2.6.20. But wait a sec, i’ve got 2 Xeon processors in this box, i’m supposed to have an SMP kernel, NOW WHAT?…….. Relax, with RedHat Enterprise 5, they decided to drop the standard kernel and make the SMP kernel the default, and now your only other kernel option is the HugeMem kernel. Don’t believe me? Take a look by running:

uname -v
#1 SMP Mon Dec 11 21:17:21 EST 2006

See, told you so . So now we have a blank slate to do whatever it is to the server. Stop back and see what I do to this box!