Campus Software Program : Red Hat Linux Workstation

Operating System and Updates

 

About:

Red Hat Linux
Red Hat Homepage

RHEL 5 Release information, http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/linux/rhel5.htm.  

Type of License: Annual (Update option expires on an annual basis - July, and requires renewal to continue usage).

 

How to Purchase or Obtain:

Pricing: Licensing funded for Client Licenses. 

Server Licenses are $55.00 annually.

  • Red Hat Client:
      1. Provide the ITS Campus Software Program with the following information: department name, contact name, contact email address, contact phone number, contact Hawk ID and the number of licenses desired. If you already have a departmental contact, you will be directed to them. See the Red Hat Contact List to see if your department already has a contact.
      2. Email messages will be sent which contain an activation key and login information for the UI RHN service.
      3. Log into https://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/software/, click on "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" and download the WS ISO images.
      4. After you have the ISO images downloaded and the OS installed, launch a web browser, download the “bootstrap.sh” script from the UI RHN service, and save the script to the “/tmp” directory. The script may be found at:
        http://rhnsat.uiowa.edu/pub/bootstrap/bootstrap.sh
      5. At a command prompt, become the "root" user, change to the "/tmp" directory where you saved the script, and make it executable:
          su -
          cd /tmp
          chmod +x bootstrap.sh
      6. Run the script: (Note the period in the following command.)
          ./bootstrap.sh
      7. When prompted, enter the activation key previously provided.

 

Support:

Limited Red Hat Linux support is available via the ITS Help Desk. See http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/linux/ or send email to its-helpdesk@uiowa.edu.