Franske CNT-2311 SP12 Labs

Below is information about the labs you must complete in this class.

Chapter 2

• Complete "Project 2-2" Installing Fedora Core 13 from the book EXCEPT:
  • Install to a new VirtualBox VM instead of directly onto the computer, set up the VM to use bridged networking
  • Make the root partition 7GB and the swap partition 1GB
• Complete "Project 2-3" from the book
• Complete "Project 2-4" from the book
• Complete "Project 2-5" from the book
• Complete "Project 2-6" from the book
• Complete "Project 2-7" from the book

Chapter 3

• Complete "Project 3-1" from the book
• Complete "Project 3-2" from the book
• Complete "Project 3-3" from the book
• Complete "Project 3-4" from the book
• Complete "Project 3-5" from the book
• Complete "Project 3-6" from the book
• Complete "Project 3-7" from the book

Chapter 4

• Complete "Project 4-1" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-2" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-3" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-4" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-5" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-6" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-7" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-8" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-9" from the book
• Complete "Project 4-10" from the book

Chapter 5

In this chapter we will be working with a few special things related to hardware. You will need to modify your virtual machine to add some additional hard disks and there will be a few modifications to the labs (noted here) which you'll need to make things work well so be sure to read carefully.

• Complete "Project 5-1" from the book
• Complete "Project 5-2" from the book with the following modifications/notes:
  • If you are using a VM do this with a virtual floppy disk, it will be much easier than a USB flash drive. If you are using a physical system with Fedora installed directly on the hardware it will be easier with a USB flash drive unless your system has a floppy drive and you have a disk handy. Note that if you follow the instructions for the USB flash drive you will be erasing all of the data on the USB flash drive!
  • You will have to add a virtual floppy controller you your virtual machine (under the storage settings for the VM)
  • You will have to add a virtual floppy drive (device) to the controller
  • You will have to download a blank floppy disk image and "insert" it into your virtual floppy drive
• Complete "Project 5-3" from the book with the following modifications/notes:
  • If you are using a VM you will need to make sure your VM has it's virtual CD/DVD drive connected to the host CD/DVD drive the same way as when you installed Fedora to begin with. You may optionally attach an ISO image to the virtual CD/DVD drive the same way as when you installed Ubuntu.
• Complete "Project 5-4" from the book with the following modifications/notes:
  • If you are doing this project directly on hardware instead of in a VM there will be some special considerations depending on your specific installation. Please discuss with the instructor before attempting.
  • When we installed our Fedora VMs we did not setup a virtual hard drive as big as the book requested so we do not have enough space on our virtual hard drive to make additional partitions. Instead you should add a second NEW (empty) virtual hard drive to your VM's SATA controller. You should actually make two as we'll need the other one later on. Make the new virtual hard drives EACH 15GB in size.
  • As you work through this project remember that instead of working on the first hard disk (/dev/sda) you will be working on one of the new disks you created (/dev/sdb). Because that drive doesn't have any existing partitions when you are working on it you will need to create a new partition of 10GB as indicated in the book but it will be /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sda3.
• DO NOT Complete "Project 5-5" from the book! We will be doing something similar (instructions below) but will be utilizing the two new virtual hard drives we created instead of a fourth partition. Because this would require major modification to the lab I have re-written it below with new instructions:
  1. New LVM lab goes here
• Complete "Project 5-6" from the book
• Complete "Project 5-7" from the book