Need job preparation help

[nubsauce11]

Hello, I am a college student and I going to get a job at my dad's company this summer as a Lab Engineer Intern. I talked to the manager and he said that I will be working on Red Hat Linux for the servers.

My question is should i install Fedora and mess around with it for a bit to get some proficiency or should i get a different flavor of Linux under my belt.

I have absolutely no experience with Linux, but quite a bit in just about everything else .

All help will be appreciated.

Thanks!!

[nubsauce11]

Oh here is the job description btw, hope it helps.

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to assisting the lab manager with Operating System Installs and trouble shooting, VMware image creation and deployment, Hardware Trouble shooting, Hardware Configuration, Test bed setups, Racking and un-racking of servers, cable management, maintain Lab equipment list, maintain lab spares list. Also assist the Lab Manager in creating the processes to monitor the warranties and support contracts for the Hardware and software being used.
Requirements:
Candidates should have working knowledge of Linux operating systems and VMware, working knowledge of Hardware trouble shooting, knowledge of the networks and network equipment, some pearl scripting knowledge will be a great plus, able and willing to follow directions, excellent communication skills, responsible and responsive, and willing to learn new technologies.

[StrayEddy]

ArchLinux could be a good choice.

All the installation is by command, with a very good and detailled beginner guide:

search for arch linux beginner guide on google.

You ll learn a lot of linux basics there.

[oz]

should i install Fedora and mess around with it for a bit to get some proficiency or should i get a different flavor of Linux under my belt.

Welcome to the forums!

If you are going to be running Red Hat at the job site, I'd install either Red Hat, Scientific, or CentOS, and then take some time to become familiar with it. Otherwise, Fedora should also teach you some of what you'll need to know to work with Red Hat and Linux in general.

Good luck on the new job.

[Lakshmipathi]

Hi Welcome.
I would suggest CentOS (don't want to pay Redhat for my home machine ) for home machine.
Install it first via GUI mode and then Install it for the second time via text mode.
If you dare, messup boot loader and re-install bootloader.
Try choosing custom package during installation.
Once you tried above, Then install Vmware and learn about it.

Another recommendation would be try doing installation without help from internet.(only by reading help installation messages appears during installation)


All the best

[elija]

I would say go for Scientific Linux rather than CentOS at the moment. They are both RHEL rebuilds but Scientific seems to be getting a lot more love at the moment.

Another recommendation would be try doing installation without help from internet.(only by reading help installation messages appears during installation)

That's just mean

[Lakshmipathi]

That's just mean

I don't know the meaning of above statement - googled without much luck

Anyway, I was suggesting, instead of referring to some on-line screen-shots and blindly following them is not a good learning process .

[elija]

I don't know the meaning of above statement - googled without much luck

mean = kind of cruel.... but not nasty

Imagine if you will having never seen Linux
And then imagine having someone give you a disk and a server and asking you to set it up

So far so good?

Now imagine them saying not to refer to the Internet

= mean

Anyway, I was suggesting, instead of referring to some on-line screen-shots and blindly following them is not a good learning process .

I couldn't agree more; however following screen shots and using a search engine* to research what you are doing is an excellent learning process. The screen shots will yield some excellent search terms.

*All right - Google!