Introduction to Linux Administration

Lab 1 - Installation

In this exercise, you will install Linux on your workstation. Note that Windows XP is already installed on this system. Our workstations have one hard drive and 512MB of RAM. The hard drive currently has two partitions.

DO NOT WRITE OVER THE FIRST PARTITION!!!!

If you do write over the first partition, then you shall receive a zero for the assignment. Consider this standard throughout the term.

1) Use the Fedora Core 3 boot disk and install Linux on the second partition of the hard drive. Use the following configuration:

/boot	100MB

/usr	2000MB

/home	1000MB

/var	400MB

/	1000MB

swap	512MB

When choosing the packages to install, choose the minimal option. I will provide the root password in class.

You will need to use the NFS install option. Here is some pertinent information:

NFS Server IP :

NFS directory : /var/ftp/pub

Note that this will give you a very basic stripped-down Linux installation. You will not have any X-windows applications at this time. Don't worry. We will be doing multiple installations of Linux and will get to it soon.

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