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IAP Linux course stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Fri Jan 5 00:42:28 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 00:41:47 -0500
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
The Linux IAP course ('Making Linux work for you') will be held in
3-133, Monday through Friday, on the week of the 15th. It will be one
hour from 5 PM to 6 PM each day.
To make it clear, I'm not organizing this thing. Really, I'm not.
It just looks that way. :-)
Since I'm not organizing this, and I don't have the time to do
something brand new, I've snarfed stuff from last IAP. (Thanks to
Erik, Greg and Abbe for having done this last year.)
I need people to lecture on each of the days on more-or-less
the topics below. These people should be avilable from 4:30 to
6 PM on the day of their lecture. Other people (at a minimum
myself, but other people should feel free to show up, hint, hint)
will be there to help out, and we will have a machine to be
projecting the installation of. Unless someone has a better
suggestion, this will be limekiller or minbari (my laptop),
though I'd rather not use minbari because I'll be doing dev
stuff over IAP and don't want magically disappearing filesystems.
I may do a UMSDOS install on minbari, but it would be nice to
demonstrate using FIPS and fdisk on some machine.
We'll likely be using the slides that Greg made for last
year (if there are no objections.) They should probably be revised
somewhat. I won't be back in Boston until Sunday, so I can't
really do much until I get back...at which point I'll be working
on Linux/AFS most of my time. If I have free time I'll revise
the slides, but it would be nice if someone else looked that them
too. Last I saw, they were in /afs/sipb/project/iap/linux, as a
FrameMaker document.
--Jered
Day 1 - The Advocacy -- Monday, January 15th
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Lecturer: (YOUR NAME HERE)
* What is Linux?
* Why should I run Linux?
* Demos of Linux-Athena apps, general Linux, commercial sw like
Maple, Matlab, Xess,, Linux Doom, other apps
* Discussion of basic issues
- What is a "distribution" (What is Slackware?)
- System requirements
* Answer general questions
Day 2 - Initial Installation -- Tuesday, January 16th
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Lecturer: (YOUR NAME HERE)
* Making boot disks
* Installation options
- Partitioning your hard disk (and discussion of hd partitions)
- UMSDOS installation
* Installation of Slackware (both off net and off of floppies)
* Network configuration
* X Windows configuration (maybe on day 3?)
Day 3 - More installation -- Wednesday, January 17th
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Lecturer: (YOUR NAME HERE)
* Filesystem layout (maybe on day 2 or day 4?)
* Installation of Linux-Athena
* Installation of Linux-AFS
* Using Linux-Athena
* Security on resnet (kerberos, telnet -safe, etc)
Day 4 - What are all those files in /etc anyways? -- Thursday, Jan 18th
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Lecturer: (YOUR NAME HERE)
* Building a kernel
* Using LILO
* Overview of various config files in /etc and elsewhere
(inittab, rc.*, fstab, inetd.conf, csh.*, profile, hosts,
resolv.conf, passwd, services, syslog.conf, etc)
* Advanced Linux-Athena issues
- xlogin/dm
- srvtab and kerberized services
* Advanced Linux issues
- a.out vs ELF
- 1.2 vs 1.3 kernels
* Apps available in AFS and on the net (octave, Maple, Matlab
gnuplot, xpaint, Xess, etc)
Day 5 - Everything else -- Friday, Jan 19th
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Lecturer: (YOUR NAME HERE)
* Configuring printers
* Configuring sendmail :-)
* More network configuration
- named
- ppp (Bluebox)
* Serving ftp
* Serving http (Apache, CERN, etc.)
* Linux Doom (of course.... :-)
