RHCSA Question - RHEL 6/7 necessary on bare metal for study?

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RHCSA Question - RHEL 6/7 necessary on bare metal for study?

Post by cuchumino » 2015/06/17 01:39:07

Hello everyone!

I am contemplating going down the RHLE certificate path, at least get the RHCSA.

I currently have CentOS 7 on my main machine, and am running it 100% of the time for my personal and work needs.

I was however contemplating switching to Fedora, given the larger/wider software repository that is available through rpmfusion.

Is it possible to study for the RHCSA using CentOS purely as a single or multpile VMs?

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Re: RHCSA Question - RHEL 6/7 necessary on bare metal for st

Post by aks » 2015/06/17 16:15:53

CentOS is RH without the copyrighted stuff (like icons and such things). I used it to study for RHCE and had no issues.
So yes, I think it's good enough for RHCSA.

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Re: RHCSA Question - RHEL 6/7 necessary on bare metal for st

Post by TrevorH » 2015/06/17 16:19:19

You could also look at the nux-dextop repo for things that are often in rpmfusion.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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Re: RHCSA Question - RHEL 6/7 necessary on bare metal for st

Post by cuchumino » 2015/06/17 17:36:15

aks wrote:CentOS is RH without the copyrighted stuff (like icons and such things). I used it to study for RHCE and had no issues.
So yes, I think it's good enough for RHCSA.
Right. How about studying for the RHCSA using CentOS as a VM only, that is not on just bare metal? Is it possible, or would I lose out on a certain kind of aspect for the test?
TrevorH wrote:You could also look at the nux-dextop repo for things that are often in rpmfusion.
Yes, that is what I am currently using. So far so good, and I've also requested a package or two to be added on their forums without any issue (as long as the dependencies weren't massive), which I think is pretty neat.

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Re: RHCSA Question - RHEL 6/7 necessary on bare metal for st

Post by slepacus miticus » 2015/07/20 18:50:42

i would advice to use 2 virtual machines; one for centos 6.x and one for centos7.x... maybe even try a fedora22
there are some changes with this from 6 to 7 and by the time you get into the real world you would probably need knowledge of 7, even though many places are running old un-updated distros as 6. But at RHCSA level every command and any requirement is version independent. Doesn't hurt to repeat same lesson in both versions ;)

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Re: RHCSA Question - RHEL 6/7 necessary on bare metal for st

Post by cuchumino » 2015/07/20 21:19:16

Cool! Thanks! Good to know. :)

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