On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:34 +0530, Nadeem M. Khan wrote: > If you're looking for system administration training, you can learn almost > everything by intalling linux at home. Some topics like raid, scsi/fibre > storage, i/o drawers, tape drives, etc cannot be learnt at home. I doubt any > individual/insti would train on that either. The best way would be to learn > whatever you can from home and then try to get a job on a live prod server.
Agree you can learn a lot about Linux admin on your home PC. To enhance this learning you can (if budget allows) buy a cheap older PC(s) and other hardware for networking and sw raid configs as well and keep detailed logs of your activity so you can always go back and trace what works and avoid what does not. As for getting a job on a live prod server - be honest and ask yourself to be supervised by a senior admin otherwise you are asking for trouble. > PS: Consider yourself lucky you want to learn linux. It can easily be > installed at home. There are lots of guys out there who want to learn > AIX/HP-UX which do not run on desktops. ( A second hand pseries anyone? ) AIX/HP-UX desktops used to be available on their respective hardware platforms. You may have better luck searching for them in the US markets. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
