Franske CNT-2311 Labs
Chapter 1
- Demonstrate directory navigation and other basic shell tasks
- Demonstrate use of environment variables
- Demonstrate methods of getting help for a command in Linux
- Demonstrate redirection and piping
- Demonstrate use of all text processing commands
Chapter 2
- Install Fedora as a second virtual machine
- Download an RPM file for a program in Fedora
- Use the RPM utility to query for information about the RPM package
- Install a program using RPM in Fedora
- Download and install a program using YUM in Fedora
- Download and install a program using apt-get or aptitude in Ubuntu
- Use ldd to get information about what libraries a program uses
- Use ps and top to view processes running on the system
- Use job control to start and stop jobs as well as run jobs in the background and list all currently running jobs
Chapter 3
- Experiment with viewing data about system hardware and driers using the following utilities
- cat /proc/interrupts
- cat /proc/ioports
- cat /proc/dma
- lspci
- lsmod
- lsusb
- dmesg
- Create a new virtual hard drive file and add it as a secondary hard drive to your Linux VM
- Partition the second hard drive into multiple partitions
- Format the partitions on the second hard drive
- Mount and unmount the formatted partitions to various mountpoints you have created within your filesystem
Chapter 6
- Use the Xorg -configure command to create a xorg.conf file and review the sections found in that file
- Attempt to change the X resolution through the xorg.conf file
- If you are unable to change the resolution in the xorg.conf file try changing it through a GUI monitor resolution tool
- Try out several accessibility options in X, for example:
- Sticky Keys
- Slow Keys
- Bounce Keys
- Mouse Keys / Mouse Navigation Emulation
- Dwell Click / Simulated Mouse Clicks
- Change the current locale (including switching the character encoding method) and timezone of your system
- Create a new text file while in a different character encoding mode
- Change your locale and timezone back to their original settings
- Use the iconv program to convert the text file you created to your default character encoding method