OPS235 Lab 2 - Fedora17

OPS235 Lab 2 GNU/Linux Installation - Fedora 12

Objectives

1. To perform a GNU/Linux installation using the Fedora 12 distribution
2. To perform boot time customization and configuration
3. To obtain network configuration from a DHCP server
4. To secure the boot loader by adding password protection
5. To investigate GRUB boot loader configuration

Reference

• Man pages
  • mount
  • rpm
  • hostname
  • uname
  • ps
  • ifconfig
  • netstat
  • route
  • nslookup
  • wc
  • grub

• Resources on the web
  • Fedora Release Notes
  • Fedora Installation Guide
  • Protecting Grub
  • Grub Details and Sample Config
  • One-way Hash Function
  • GRUB Tutorial
  • Password Security

Required Material

• Fedora 12 x_64 Installation DVD - You can burn this onto a DVD-R in the Open Lab
• SATA Hard Disk (the same one used for Lab 1)
• USB Memory Stick (minimum 64M)

Prerequisite

• Completion of Lab 1

Introduction

In this lab, you are going to install the Fedora (GNU/Linux Distribution) to your hard disk from DVD.

You need a number of hard disk partitions/physical volumes for this installation: the /dev/sda1 (300M), the /dev/sda2 extended partition, the /dev/sda5 (300M), all created in Lab 2, and 4 new physical volumes which you will create during this lab.

After the installation, you will collect baseline information about your Fedora GNU/Linux system, do some post installation configuration to prepare your system for the remainder of the labs, manipulate the GRUB configuration, and start using the system.

Instructions

1. Insert and secure your SATA hard disk to the removable disk slot.
2. Power up the computer.
3. Insert the Fedora 12 x_64 Installation DVD into the DVD drive.
4. Reboot the system.