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|valign="top"|{{Admon/important|Determine Type of Hard Disk Storage Device|There are basically 3 methods of storage devices that are used for this course:<br><br><ul><li>'''Solid State Drive (SSD)'''Please be aware of these facts when - this is the preferred storage device method for this course. By creating a Virtual Host Machine using VMware Workstation 12 Pro, you have the DVD burners flexibility of working on your labs at home or at Seneca's computer labs:. Your instructor will provide details how to get a free version of VMware Workstation 12 Pro for your home computer or notebook computer.<br><br></li><li>''' :*Notebook computer'''Most labs at Seneca College (this will require students externally boot their that the notebook computer can connect to the Internet). You would be required to follow the same instructions for lab machines1 - SSD.<br>''' (i.e. from removable disk drive) in order to use the DVD burner... Note:* On the other handIt may take one or two weeks before students can obtain their free version of VMware Workstation 12 Pro; therefore, the it may be more convenient to purchase an SSD'''TEL OPEN LAB (Rm. T2113)<br>'''NOTE: It is NOT recommended to use VMware Player''' a.<br><br></li><li>'''llows students to boot Internally in order to download DVD imagesRemovable SATA Drive''' onto their Desktop(Usable, but inflexible and then burn themout-dated method). :* A repository refers to </li></ul><br>If you are using an SSD or a "storage area" that contains images and applications for various Operating Systems (including Fedora). notebook computer, then you are '''Seneca college has a Fedora repository, which allows the student to QUICKLY download, and burn their Fedora LIVE and or Installation DVDs<u>not</u>'''. Students can only access this repository from required to burn the collegeCentos 7 installation disk (you will just following instructions for lab 1 - SSD). In other wordsIf you have a removable SATA drive, they cannot connect then you should perform the following steps to this repository from computer at homecreate a bootable Centos 7 install DVD... :* If you wish It may be useful to download and burn from your home computer, please refer to the third download and Burning option in [[Download_and_Burn_at_Home | this pageCentos 7 live DVD that can be used for rescue purposes...]]}}
|[[Image:tel_oenlab.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The '''TEL OPEN LAB<br />(Rm. T2113)''' is one of the few areas at Seneca that '''allows the student to burn CD/DVDs without having to boot from an <u>external</u> (removable) hard drive'''.]]
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'''Before Proceeding with Download and Burning:'''
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<li value="6"> Determine which image you want to download. Below are links to both the LIVE DVD and Installation DVD1 DVD images:
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<li> CentOS 7 Live CD ImageFull Install DVD (image file): http://belmont.senecacollege.ca/pub/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOMEDVD-15111708.iso<br><br></li><li> CentOS 7 Full Install DVD1Gnome Live DVD (image file): Not required for labs, but for rescue purposes only: <br> http://belmont.senecacollege.ca/pub/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVDLiveGNOME-15111708.iso</li>
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{{Admon/important|You can only use the links above (via Seneca's Belmont server) from Seneca College.<br />The above links WILL NOT WORK when you are home or outside of Seneca College. Refer to the link "How to Create From Home" in the main OPS235 Wiki.|}}
{{Admon/important|Only Perform Steps Below if you are using a Removable SATA Drive For This Course|If you have an SSD drive, then you can simply download the Centos 7 image file to your Windows Seneca College account and then follow instructions in Lab1 - SSD to create a virtual machine using VMware Workstation 12 Pro. If you are using a removable SATA drive (older technology), then you need to follow the instructions below to create a bootable install Centos7 DVD.|}}
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