1. Welcome Thank you for attending this special Computer Club event Day 2 of the 4 Day Linux Tutorial –Linux Installation

2. Planning your installation Purpose of your server: –Standalone workstation? –Personal computer? (games, word processing) –Server/Dedicated Server? (Apache, FTP, SSH,…) –Customized?

3. Linux vs. Other operating systems Linux vs. Microsoft –Microsoft dominant in personal computing – Linux dominant in scientific and servers environment Linux vs. UNIX –Linux: Free + more generic –UNIX: More customized for certain tasks, tuned for higher performance.

4. Getting your copy of Linux http://www.linuxiso.org http://www.freeBSD.org (My favorite ) http://www.redhat.com http://www.slackware.com http://www.gentoo.org http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ College of Staten Island Library

5. Hardware Information What is the budget you are working with? –Less than $3000? –More than $3000? Again, what is the purpose of the system? –Server? –Workstation? –Gaming?

6. Hardware continued… Workstations/Personal systems: –Good input/output devices –Good peripherals Servers: –Fast processor(s) –Lots of memory (RAM/Disk Space) –Fast hardware

7. Continued… Hardware compatibility –For different versions google for: “Linux Hardware Compatibility” –Go to distribution’s website –For RedHat: http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/

8. Hardware specs. Computer Architecture: –X86 Pentium AMD –Sparc –Alpha –PPC

9. Partitioning your Hard Drive

10. Partitions continued… Setting up the partition sizes: –/boot: Approximately 30 megs –/swap: 2 times the size of your RAM –/home: Determined by the admin/user –/: Determined by the admin/user

11. Choice of File Systems Standard: – Second Extended Filesystem (Ext2FS) Journaling: –Major flaws of "traditional" filesystems like Ext2FS is their low tolerance to abrupt system breakdowns (power failure or crashing software). Journaling File systems help prevent this.

12. Types of Journaling File Systems Ext3 –Offers the journal filesystem technology, while keeping Ext2FS structure – ensuring an excellent compatibility. ReiserFS (added to kernel 2.4.1) –Unlike to Ext3FS, ReiserFS is created from scratch. It is journalized like Ext3FS, but its internal structure is radically different. Specifically, it uses binary-tree concepts inspired by database software.

13. Installing Linux Installation first runs minimal boot version of Linux What type of media: –DVD, CD, Network, Floppy Methods: –Text, GUI, Script based

14. Lets get started!