Seminar: Linux Installation and Basics March 17

[Warren Togami]

Linux Installation and Basics
Date: Saturday, March 17th
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: University of Hawaii, POST 327
Bring your own food!

Please RSVP to warren at togami.com with subject "LINUX SEMINAR 1" by this
Saturday, 3/10/01.
Serious sign-ups only.
The room can accomodate only about 20 people.

This seminar will show you how to install and use Linux on a typical Windows
machine in a dual boot configuration, and some basics in administration, and
usage of the Linux CLI, X, Gnome and KDE desktops.  This is plenty to cover,
hence the long and boring 3 hour long seminar.  I dunno, maybe we'll be done
early at 2 hours.  We'll see.

I'll have some Linux Mandrake 7.2, Redhat 7.0, and OpenBSD CD's that day.

Rough list of topics to be covered:

[x86 Boot]
Partitioning
Master Boot Record
Active Partition
Type 83 - Linux
Type 82 - Swap
FAT32 & NTFS
Dual Booting

[Linux Mandrake Install]
Installation Types
Choosing Partition Scheme
Partition mount points (including Windows partitions)
Resize FAT32
Package Selection
X Config
LILO Dual Boot Config

[Boot]
LILO Menu Commands
- Operating Systems
- Linux Kernel Options
- "single" user mode
Runtime Levels
Interactive Boot

[Security and Updates]
Disable all services and upgrade packages so you don't get hacked by lame
31337 script kiddies.
Install Ximian Gnome because it is damn cool.
Upgrade to KDE for more cool stuff to play with.

[Interface]
Command Line
Gnome
KDE

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
MPLUG - Mid-Pacific Linux User's Group
http://mplug.togami.com