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4.2 Linux Install Topic
The purpose of this section is to install the Linux
operating system.
Preparation for this section requires you to obtain an overview of
the steps needed to install Linux.
This is confused by the number of different distributions available.
- Read the Debian installation read-me file.
- Read chapter 2 of Running Linux by Welsh, Dalheimer, & Kaufman. "Preparing to Install Linux".
- Read chapter 3 of Running Linux by Welsh, Dalheimer, & Kaufman. "Installation and Initial Configuration".
- Read chapter 4 of Running Linux by Welsh, Dalheimer, & Kaufman. "Essential System Management".
- Locate a Debian distribution CD-ROM or other distribution.
- If necessary, prepare a bootable floppy disk.
- Understand hard disk partitioning. Some items to consider:
- Try to minimize the activity on the root partition and
on the root device. Failures here are difficult to recover from.
- Have all necessary file to boot the system on the root partition.
- Have twice as much swap space as real memory.
- Place the swap space on the least busy fastest device. Place
a swap partition near the center of the disk.
- If
/usr runs out of space, the system should still have
space on /.
- If a daemon logs too much, it should not prevent a user from
saving its work. This and temp files are usually placed in
/var and on a separate partition.
- If a user fills up the partition he/she is using, this should
not upset the whole system. (It will probably upset a bunch of
other users though.)
- UNIX systems fail VERY badly if they run out of space on root
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and need some. It may not be possible to re-boot the system.
- Find & review the systems hardware configuration.
- Obtain the primary IP address for the system.
- Install and configure a system with a Debian distribution
or other distribution.
Make sure that you include the packages necessary for code
development and the X window system.
- Install and configure a second system with a different
distribution.
- Telnet from one system to the other.
ftp files from one system to the other
- Add user accounts to both systems for each member of your group.
Make sure that you use the same GIDs and UIDs on both systems.
- Get
pine & pico working. For Debian you may want
to "grab" pine-pico.tgz from the anonymous ftp server on ftp://phRed.dcccd.edu/pub/ltaber/csc225.
- Mail your report from your Debian system.
Turn in your group's report at the lab (only one copy please) as follows:
- Mark with: CSC225 Topic: 4.2: Install
- Group membership.
- Name of the distributions used.
- Output of
ifconfig eth0 for each system.
- Output of
fdisk -l for each system.
- /etc/fstab.
- Relative merits of each distribution.
- Suggestions on this topic.
Instructor: ltaber@pima.edu** My new Home on phRed** The Pima College Site** The Mad Dr. G.'s home page on phred.