Seminar: Linux Installation and Basics March 17

[Ann and Al Shaver]

Please put me down for the seminar. It sounds great!

I have no idea what "POST 327" indicates. An American
Legion post? Near a post with those numeral on it?

Please point me in the right direction.

Thanks, Al Shaver

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Togami [mailto:warren at togami.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:37 PM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] Seminar: Linux Installation and Basics March 17
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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