Install RHEL 7 Guest on Centos 8 Server via Text Mode & Kickstart

This session we are going to go over and deploy is using an ISO and kickstart install. This is different than a PXE install and does not require a PXE nor TFTP setup. In this example everything we are accessing is over NFS mounts but could very well have been local. Install using kickstart file … Continue reading Install RHEL 7 Guest on Centos 8 Server via Text Mode & Kickstart

Installing X11 packages on Centos 8

I ran into an issue the other day where I wanted to have graphic capabilities remotely available. I wanted to use virt-manager to Normally its just a matter of having X11Forwarding=yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and then using "ssh -Y USER@IP_ADDRESS". This of course was not working and that's because when I installed these servers they were … Continue reading Installing X11 packages on Centos 8

Netdata Mini Server

I have a mini PC currently not being used. Originally I bought this for pfsense firewall but have since moved to Ubiquiti Unifi Dream Machine Pro so I have a spare. I decided to make this a NetData server simply because I would like a central monitoring facility and NetData gives me everything I would … Continue reading Netdata Mini Server