OPS235 Lab 6 - Fedora17

Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines

Objectives

• Use the Fedora GUI program to configure network interfaces with static IP configuration and host name resolution
• Use the find command to locate the configuration files modified by the GUI network configuration program
• To examine some of the Linux's TCP/IP configuration files in the /etc/ directory
• To configure a Fedora host with static network configuration without a GUI tool
• To use and interpret the netstat</code command

• Format, mount, use, and unmount ext3, ext4, and vfat filesystems on USB flash drives.
• Create filesystems on various storage devices
• Create hard disk partitions
• Backup filesystems and images
• Mount a filesystem stored within a a regular file

Reference

• man pages for cp, mount, umount, fdisk, mkdir, file, mkfs, dumpe2fs, grep, dd
• Online reading material for weeks 1 and 2.

Required materials

• Fedora 12 Live CD
• USB flash drive, 64 MB or more in size (Warning: the contents of this drive will be erased)
• One SATA hard disk in a removable drive tray (minimum 80GB)