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Fall 2008 SYA710 Weekly Schedule

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The tentative weekly schedule shown here is subject to change.

Week 1 (Sept 1) - Intro to SYA710 / Installing Linux

  • Course introduction
  • Introduction to Open Source and Linux
  • Introduction to our labs
    • Lab T2107 - data recovery cards
  • Activities for this week
    • Set up your accounts as described on the LUX Communication page.
    • Complete the SYA710 Lab #0 and blog about the experience.
    • Lab #0 is due before midnight Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Week 2 (Sept 8) - File Systems and Logical Volume Management

  • Activities for this week
    • Complete the SYA710 Lab01 and blog about the experience.
    • Lab01 is due before midnight Wednesday, September 17, 2008
  • Concepts/Commands learned/used in this week's lecture
    • File System: A way to organize data for efficient and easy access
    • Containers: Objects (partitions, files, volumes) that hold file systems
    • Virtual File System: Allows transparent access to files on different file systems
    • Commands: mkfs, fsck, fdisk, mount, umount, e2label, resize2fs
  • Using UUIDs (universally unique identifiers)
    • 128-bit numbers make hard disk management easier
    • add UUID= entry in /etc/fstab
    • Linux file systems support UUIDs, Windows not so much
    • Commands: blkid, vol_id, uuidgen, tune2fs, findfs
  • Working with Logical Volumes (LVM)
    • Physical Volumes (eg partitions) are joined into Volume Groups
    • Logical Volumes are drawn from Volume Groups
    • Commands: pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate

Week 3 (Sept 15) - Linux Startup

  • Activities for this week
    • Complete the SYA710 Lab02 and blog about the experience.
    • Lab02 is due before midnight Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  • Concepts/Commands learned/used in this week's lecture
    • Linux Boot Process
      • Power on - Code in ROM BIOS finds and loads 1st stage loader from boot device (MBR)
      • 1st stage loader finds and loads 2nd stage loader (GRUB)
      • 2nd stage loader finds and loads Linux kernel and initial ram disk
      • kernel checks the system hardware, mounts the root device and loads the needed kernel modules
      • kernel runs init program (PID=1)
    • Init Process (System V)
      • init reads /etc/inittab to get default run level
      • init runs rc
      • rc runs runlevel scripts
    • Init Process (Upstart)
      • init gets jobs/tasks from /etc/events.d/
      • init emits startup event to start system
      • init waits for more events
      • fully compatible with System V

Week 4 (Sept 22) - Linux Package Management

Task Ubuntu - apt Opensuse - zypp Fedora - yum/pkcon
Install  a package apt-get install <pkg> zypper install <pkg> yum install <pkg>
pkcon install <pkg>
Remove a package apt-get remove <pkg> zypper remove <pkg> yum erase <pkg>
pkcon remove <pkg>
Update package list apt-get update zypper refresh yum check-update
Update system apt-get upgrade zypper update yum update
pkcon update-system
List all repositories cat /etc/apt/sources.list zypper repos yum repolist
Add a repository (edit /etc/apt/sources.list) zypper addrepo <path> <name> (add <repo> to /etc/yum.repos.d/)
Remove a repository (edit /etc/apt/sources.list) zypper removerepo <name> (remove <repo> from /etc/yum.repos.d/)
Search for a package apt-cache search <pkg> zypper search <pkg> yum search <pkg>
pkcon search details <pkg>
List all installed packages dpkg -l rpm -qa rpm -qa

Week 5 (Sept 29) - Building a New Kernel

  • download source from kernel.org
  • unpack source
    • tar xvjf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2
  • create configuration (.config) file
    • cd linux-2.6.26
    • cp /proc/config.gz .
    • gzip -d config.gz
    • mv config .config
    • make oldconfig
  • customize your configuration
    • make menuconfig
  • compile kernel and modules
    • make
  • copy kernel image to /boot
    • cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26
  • copy system map to /boot
    • cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.26
  • install the modules
    • make modules_install
  • create initial ram disk image
    • mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.26 -i initrd-2.6.26
  • update GRUB
    • vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
  • reboot

Week 6 (Oct 6) - Automated Installations

Week 7 (Oct 13) - Midterm Test

FSOSS and Break Week (Oct 20)

Week 8 (Oct 27) - Virtual Machines

Week 9 (Nov 3) - VM Management

Week 10 (Nov 10) - Creating Custom Spins

Week 11 (Nov 17) - More Spinning

Week 12 (Nov 24) - Making Live CDs

Week 13 (Dec 1) - Exam review

Exam Week (Dec 8)