Fall 2008 SYA710 Weekly Schedule
The tentative weekly schedule shown here is subject to change.
Contents
- 1 Week 1 (Sept 1) - Intro to SYA710 / Installing Linux
- 2 Week 2 (Sept 8) - File Systems and Logical Volume Management
- 3 Week 3 (Sept 15) - Linux Startup
- 4 Week 4 (Sept 22) - Package Management
- 5 Week 5 (Sept 29) - Building a New Kernel
- 6 Week 6 (Oct 6) - Automated Installations
- 7 Week 7 (Oct 13) - Midterm Test
- 8 FSOSS and Break Week (Oct 20)
- 9 Week 8 (Oct 27) - Virtual Machines
- 10 Week 9 (Nov 3) - VM Management
- 11 Week 10 (Nov 10) - Creating Custom Spins
- 12 Week 11 (Nov 17) - More Spinning
- 13 Week 12 (Nov 24) - Making Live CDs
- 14 Week 13 (Dec 1) - Exam review
- 15 Exam Week (Dec 8)
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
- Linux Boot Process
