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Conditions

Our agreement with Red Hat has the following limits:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop/Workstation is available to all personally owned systems for LSU Students and Staff

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server is available only to LSU Staff

Installation
Note: These commands need to be run in the Terminal or Shell as the root user
The installation process consists of the following steps:

Create LSU RHN Satellite account via Help Desk (if installling first system)

Get the installation media from Tigerware, Client or Server

Install Red Hat from CD (do not register with Red Hat at this time)

Install LSU RHN Satellite Server Certificate:
rpm -ivh http://satellite.rhn.lsu.edu/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Register the system:

At the command line type the following command:
rhnreg_ks --serverUrl https://satellite.rhn.lsu.edu/XMLRPC --sslCACert /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --username (username) --password (password)

Note: Do not run rhn_register as this will not register you with the LSU Servers

If you are using RHEL2, RHEL3, or RHEL4, up2date may now be run. If you are running RHEL5, yum update may now be run.