Course Overview
Course Content
- Starting the Installation
- Boot Media
- Accessing the Installer
- Installation through NFS
- Installation through FTP
- Installation through HTTP
- Network Installation Server
- Configuring File Systems
- Advanced Partitioning
- Package Selection
- First Boot: Post-Install Configuration
- Starting a Kickstart Installation
- Anatomy of a Kickstart File
- Hands-On
- Boot sequence overview
- Troubleshooting boot problems
- What are GRUB and grub.conf
- Start boot process: GRUB
- Kernel initialization
- Initialization (init 0,1,2,3,4,5)
- Running level
- /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
- /etc/rc.d/rc
- System V run level
- /etc/rc.d/rc.local
- Service control (service, init.d, chkconfig)
- Hands-On
- Linux kernel
- Kernel images and variants
- kernel module
- kernel module utility
- Manage initrd images
- Accessing drivers Through /dev
- Device node example
- Manage /dev with udev
- Add the file under /dev
- Kernel configuration using /proc
- /proc example
- sysctl : persistent kernel configuration
- Examine hardware devices (hwinfo)
- Process and resource monitoring (kill, ps, pstree, top)
- Hands-On
- Configure a network device to connect to a local network
- Configure a network device to connect to a wide-area network
- Communicate between subnets within a single network
- Configure a network device to implement authentication
- Configuring a multi- homed network device
- Resolving networking and communication problems
- /sbin/route
- /sbin/ifconfig
- /bin/netstat
- /bin/ping
- /sbin/arp
- /usr/sbin/arpwatch
- /usr/sbin/tcpdump
- /usr/bin/nc
- Hands-On