Originally Posted by BrewDudeBob

Greetings everyone,

First post.

I am a former Solaris Admin. My company recently switched over to Red Hat RHEL. I want to ramp myself up to become certified with the RHCSA, then later with RHCE.

I got the Michael Jang book, and no sooner did I crack it open, I discovered if I want to get the most out of it, I will need to have another server to play on. Of course, the CPU needs to be 64 bit, and I happen to have two old 32 bit desktops collecting dust at home, so I cannot use them.

I do have a laptop running Windows 7 that is 64 bit, but I am leery of using a dual-boot solution to install RHEL6 Server on it.

So I think what I want to do is go out and find a good bargain on a bare bones server, or workstation, that fits the system requirements (which I am finding to be rather nebulous)

Would I be fine running RHEL 6 Server on any 64 bit dual-core or more desktop with >=4GB Memory? Or will I be wasting time and money?

I really want to get the most out of the labs in the book, and I cannot begin using them until I have a box running Linux. I do not want to install any OS other than RHEL6, as I do not want to be confusing myself too much.

So can anyone please share what they have done? what works? what doesn't? Is it possible for me to get a cheap 64 bit desktop, load it with RHEL 6 and run all the labs? Or do I really need to have actual server hardware for this.

Thanks!

-Bob

Originally Posted by BrewDudeBob

Well I now have RHEL 6 Workstation installed on my new computer and I am posting this reply from it



I bought this one

DELL i570-5556NBK
AMD Athlon™ II X2 250 (3.00GHz, 2MB Cache)
4GB, DDR3, 1333MHz, 4 DIMM
1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

The installation went slicker than dog snot.

I will now commence to plowing through all the chapters soaking up all I can. Perhaps, I will start new threads discussing each chapter as I go? May be good for me and anyone else who cares to talk out some of the topics.

Wish me luck!

Enough for tonight though, still recovering from my weekend...