OPS235 Lab 5 - Fedora17

OPS235 Lab 5 - Loopback Filesystems, Archives, Compiling from Source

Caution!
This lab is under construction.

Objectives

1. To create and use loopback filesystems in read-write mode
2. To create and use archive files (tar and tar.gz)
3. Compiling software from source code
4. Customizing system startup

References

• man pages for mount, fstab, tar, gzip, make, chkconfig, dd, service
• Resources on the web:
  • Services in Fedora 10
  • How to use the dd command