November news

2020-11-16

CERN CentOS 7.9 available for installation.

Dear Linux users.

We are pleased to announce that the updated CERN Centos Linux (CC7) version:

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              CC 7.9 is available
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            as of Monday 16.11.2020

and is now default CC7 production version.

For information about CC79, including installation instructions please visit:

    <a href="http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/">http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/</a>

• Installation:

• via PXE network boot menu (http://cern.ch/linux/install/)

• non-PXE installation:

  http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.9/os/x86_64/images/

  and corresponding installation path is:

  http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.9/os/x86_64/

• Automated PXE installations using AIMS2

  Boot targets are:

  • CC7_X86_64
  • CC79_X86_64

• A new Openstack image is also available:

  • name : CC7 - x86_64 [2020-11-16]
  • id : 8d3802b2-8b9d-40a1-b4fd-7b2b70f8dbd9

• Upgrading from previous CERN CentOS 7.X release:

CC7 system can be updated by running:

# yum --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly} clean all
# yum --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly} update

2020-11-12

CERN CentOS 7.9 testing available for installation.

Dear Linux users.

We are pleased to announce the newly updated CERN CentOS Linux (CC7) version:

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      CC7.9 TEST is available for installation
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            as of Thursday 12.11.2020

and will become the default CC7 production version on 16.11.2020.

For information about CC7.9, including installation instructions please visit:

    <a href="http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/">http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/</a>

• Installation:

• via PXE network boot menu (http://cern.ch/linux/install/)

• non-PXE installation: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.9/os/x86_64/images/ and corresponding installation path is: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.9/os/x86_64/

• Automated PXE installations using AIMS2 Boot target is:

  • CC79_X86_64_TEST

• Openstack TEST image is also available:

  • name : CC7 TEST - x86_64 [2020-11-12]
  • id : 5ce3a956-976b-4425-a480-4f24021fe53e

• Puppet managed VMs can be created with the following options: ai-bs --cc7 --nova-image-edition Test [...]

• Upgrading from a previous CERN CentOS 7.X release:

All updates will be released to production repositories only on 16.11.2020. Until then CC7 systems can be updated by running:

```

yum --enablerepo=cr --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly}-testing clean all

yum --enablerepo=cr --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly}-testing update

``

• Problem reporting: Please report problems to Linux.Support@cern.ch