Archive for the ‘Learning Linux’ Category
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
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Henry White and Anita Lewis run this low-key mailing list and Web site that is the best free program on the 'Net, dedicated ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Welcome message - blt-newuser@basiclinux.net
Anita Lewis
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™ - New Users
An Overview of Linux
Henry White
Table of Contents
History of Unix
Development of Linux
System Features
About Linux's Copyright
Differences Between Linux and Other ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Hardware Requirements & Selecting a Distribution
Barrie James
Table of Contents
Hardware Requirements
Choosing a Distribution
Obtaining the Installation Media
Linux Distributions
Other Sources for CD-ROM
Assignments
Hardware Requirements
Linux installation tools are getting better all the ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Preparing Your Hard Disk
Diane Labrosse
Table of Contents
How Much Hard Disk Space?
Prune
Backup
Scandisk
defrag
DOS Format Floppies
Create an Emergency DOS Boot Diskette
Create an FIPS Floppy
Create a BOOTDISK
Create a ROOTDISK
Assignments
How Much Hard ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Partitions & Partitioning
Anita Lewis
Table of Contents
Requirements
Mechanics
Assignments
Requirements
As we discussed in our last lesson, every hard disk contains a partition table which can contain space ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Booting & Boot Managers
Anita Lewis
Table of Contents
Background
Boot concepts
lilo
grub
loadlin
init
Assignments
Background
After the BIOS performs the POST (Power On System Test), initializing the screen and keyboard, and testing main memory; it ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Filesystem
Henry White
Table of Contents
Filesystem Types
Working with Directories
File Ownership and Permissions
Links
Assignments
Filesystem Types
Generally speaking, each operating system has its own unique filesystem. Files created on one operating system are ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Essential System Management
Henry White
Table of Contents
Your New Job Description
passwd
group
at, batch, cron
motd
Assignments
Your New Job Description
You now have new responsibilities as the system administrator for your new Linux installation.
Actually, ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Basic Linux Training™
Basic Unix/Linux Commands & Concepts
Gary Leaf
Table of Contents
Filesystem
Prompt
Listing Directories
Permissions
chmod, chown, chgrp
Linking files
Wildcards
Processes
Assignments
Filesystem
If you are comfortable at the DOS prompt, you should see a lot of similarities in ...
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