Questions about getting ready for your Red Hat remote exam?

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[CornelStefan]

These are my tries:

Ryzen 3900X/x570 board -> tower
Thinkpad T470
Lenovo B590 -> Ivy Bridge era laptop
AMD A320/Athlon 200GE Tower
Asus G751JT 

USB Sticks:
- USB3 Kingston
- USB3 Adata
- USB3 Sandisk

Burned with Fedora tool (the tool never worked for me in the last 10 years of installing Fedora).
Tried with Rufus and DD on Linux.

Tried both the new and old image. It usually gets to 100% loading into memory and then it locks up. Drivers for USB keyboard/mouse just die and it doesn't even dump you into rescue mode or at least kernel panic. It does nothing.
on the 3900X machine it got after like 40 mins to dracut-timeout.

[mwatts]

I also went through 3 different computers and 3 different drives to get mine to boot. I ended up having to use my surface pro which has no ethernet port and 1 USB port. Support told me it is a driver issue and the image only works on certain models of systems.

[Tooms]

Hi,

I downloaded the Remote Exam ISO, checked that it has the correct md5sum of 0dd72ac558fc1afbf0c0e1fa4b366f10, put it on a USB drive and booted my desktop PC from it.

That all worked fine.

However, I don't get a network connection. The only options presented to me when opening the Network settings in the menu is to setup a VPN connection and a Network Proxy, but no settings for the wired network connection.

I suspect that it is due to the 2.5G NIC that I have on my Gigabyte Mainboard. It is working fine with Fedora 35 and using this driver:

$ lspci -k -s 04:00.0
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller (rev 05)
DeviceName: RTL8111E Giga LAN
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device e000
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

Could someone check/verify if this driver is included in the Remote Exam ISO image, please ?

Is there any chance you could provide an updated image that includes this driver by Wednesday COB ? I have my exam Scheduled for Thursday....

[Tooms]

As I have scheduled the next Exam I tried again and downloaded the latest ISO today (v20220712, md5sum 478157b7675223468d83253a241a1fd5).

That still doesn't seem to have the required driver included.

Any chance to have a new ISO published that contains this driver, before November 1st ?

[PetrCihlar]

"Any chance to have a new ISO published that contains this driver, before November 1st ?"

The current ISO was released recently and I do not PERSONALLY think there will be a new release soon.

On the other hand, your issue is easy to be solved just by using a simple USB to Ethernet adapter. 

Something similar to this:
https://www.amazon.com/ethernet-Adapter-Supporting-Ethernet-Network/dp/B084MCVVP9/ref=sr_1_9?crid=2W...

100Mbps version is more likely to be compatible and is fine for the exam. The price is under 10 USD. I had even seen some for 5 USD only.

I hope this helps

Regards Petr

[Tooms]

Yes, I was thinking about a USB <-> ETH Adapter as well already.

Or, alternatively, use an old(er) PC for the exam, which I already did before.

But obviously I would like the driver to be added, so I thought it might be worth to ask, as my last Exam is some months ago now.

[Tooms]

Hi again,

okay, that ISO image doesn't seem to like me.

I just tried it on my MacBook Pro (End 2012, so pretty old I must admit), but that only gives errors during boot:

[arbhati]

The ISO image will not work on Mac laptops. Only on RHEL/Windows OS is supported.

[PetrCihlar]

No no @arbhati, Intel Macbooks in general (not all) can really be used for the exam. But it may be challenging. 
Macs are very familiar to me and I should have answers to your questions. I do not want to be long, so ask me, if you have a particular issue and questions.

[AnithaRaaji]

Hi,

Error 36:"Rebuild USb drive" can be rectified by using the latest release of ISO image. you can re download it from the PDf and boot again.