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[[Category:OPS235]][[Category:OPS235 Labs]]
{{Admon/caution|THIS IS AN OLD VERSION OF THE LAB|'''This is an archived version. Do not use this in your OPS235 course.'''}}
=Fedora 17 Installation (on Main Host - f17host)=
<li>If you get a warning with something like "This device may contain data" - it's probably your new hard drive and you can safely use it.</li>
<li>Select '''Create Custom Layout''', we don't want to use the Fedora default setup now.</li>
<li>On your drive you will need at least the following partitions. These may be primary partitions or logical drives. If you have more space than 160GB 250GB available - you can add the extra space in equal parts to /home and /var/lib/libvirt/images</li>
<ul><li>'''20GB''' for '''/''' (i.e. "root")</li>
<li>'''30GB''' for /home</li>
<li>'''8GB''' for '''swap'''(Note: "swap" must be selected from the drop down menu)</li>
<li>'''100GB''' for '''/var/lib/libvirt/images'''</li></ul>
<li>Record briefly in your lab logbook what partitions you created of what size and what device names were assigned to them (/dev/sda1, etc.).</li>
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{{Admon/important|Pathname for USB Stick|The procedure has changed to refer to the usb device for distributions prior to Fedora17 (eg. /media/usb-device-name). For Fedora17, the new device pathname is:<br /><b>/run/media/userloginid/usb-device-name</b> .<br /><br />Note: You can press the <b>tab</b> key to guess what the userloginname/usb-device-name</b> is...}}
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<livalue="13">Copy the installation log file <code>'''/root/install.log'''</code> and the file '''ps.lst''' to a USB memory key, or '''scp''' to your matrix account as a backup.</li>
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{{Admon/tip |Learning How Rusty Issuing Linux commands since ULI101?|To be an effective Linux administrator, you need to Learn|Refer become comfortable on issuing Linux commands in a shell, and use resources to quickly learn how to properly formulate Linux commands...<br /><br />You can run the following online tutorials to practice (refresh) issuing Linux commands. These tutorials were designed for another course called "OPS435", but you can still use them for practice. Simply open a shell, SSH into the Matrix server (eg. ssh yourusername@matrix.senecac.on.ca) and run the following 4 tutorials (you can copy and paste these separate pathnames and run like a program):<br /><br />'''/home/ops435/tutorials/tutorial1<br />/home/ops435/tutorials/tutorial2<br />/home/ops435/tutorials/tutorial3<br />/home/ops435/tutorials/vi-tutorial'''<br /><br />You can also refer to the section above called '''Linux Command Online Reference''' to see how use use the following Linux commands to obtain the required information.}}
# To check the network configuration settings obtained from the DHCP server, run the following commands, describing the output in your log book:
* Can login with your "learn" account name
* Has the package count
* Has correct size partitions for ( ::* '''root / ''' (20GB), '''/home ''' (30GB), swap (8GB).Use the '''sudo mountswap''' command (8GB):* Has a '''100GB''' partition dedicated to virtual machine images (i.e. '''/var/lib/libvirt/images'''(100GB):* Hint: Can issue '''lsblk''' (listblock command)
* Has the correct IP address and MAC address
* Find out the default route (gateway)
