CERN Linux installation service
CERN Linux installation server - linuxsoft.cern.ch provides installation of linux distributions over http.
Available Linux distributions
Following Linux distributions are available:
| Distribution | Installation path | Remarks |
CERN recommended and supported distributions |
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| CERN CentOS 7 |
/cern/centos/7/os/x86_64 |
for 64bit systems See: CC7 installation instructions. |
| Scientific Linux CERN 6 |
/cern/slc6X/i386 /cern/slc6X/x86_64 |
for i686 / athlon, See: SLC6 installation instructions. |
| Scientific Linux CERN 5 |
/cern/slc5X/i386 /cern/slc5X/x86_64 |
for i686 / athlon, See: SLC5 installation instructions. |
CERN test / under certification / distributions |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux licensed distributions |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server / x86 (Update 11) | /enterprise/5Server/en/os/i386/ | ** |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server / x86_64 (Update 11) | /enterprise/5Server/en/os/x86_64/ | ** |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server / x86 (Update 6) | /enterprise/6Server/en/os/i386/ | ** |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server / x86_64 (Update 6) | /enterprise/6Server/en/os/x86_64/ | ** |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server / x86_64 (Update 1) | /enterprise/7Server/en/os/x86_64/ | ** |
Fedora Linux distributions provided AS IS |
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| Fedora 21 |
/fedora/linux/releases/21/ |
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| Fedora 20 |
/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/i386/os/ /fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/ |
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| Fedora 19 |
/fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedora/i386/os/ /fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedora/x86_64/os/ |
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| Fedora 18 |
/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/i386/os/ /fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os/ |
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* - accessible only from CERN internal networks (use nearest Red Hat Mirror if outside CERN)
** - Access is restricted to valid license owners only, only from CERN internal networks and only over |
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Automatic Installation Management System (AIMS)
To ease the installation of a large number of machines we propose to use the kickstart based Automatic Installation Mnanagement System, AIMS.
Note: Access to all unsupported and obsolete Linux versions (CERN and Red Hat) has been disabled (this includes following versions):
- CERN: 4.1 5.1 6.1 6.1.1 7.2.1 7.3.1 7.3.2 7.3.3 CEL3 slc302 slc303 slc304 slc305 slc306 slc307 slc308
- Red Hat Linux: 6.1 6.2 7.2 7.3 8 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1 3
- Fedora Linux: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
- All ia64 (Itanium II) SLC versions
The CERN Linux AFS repository is located at /afs/cern.ch/project/linux/
It's directory layout matches the one on the installation server. (Except for Fedora Linux distributions which are accessible from linuxsoft.cern.ch only)
For Scientific Linux CERN 6 you'll find files in
- the AFS directory /afs/cern.ch/project/linux/cern/slc6X/
- over HTTP on http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc6X/
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over FTP on ftp://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc6X/FTP installation method has been removed in 2015. over NFS on nfs://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/NFS installation method has been removed in 2013.
