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LPI 101 RPM

Table of contents

1 Introduction:................................................................................................................. 5

1.1 Acknowledgments....................................................................................................6

1.2 History......................................................................................................................6

1.3 Dramatis Personi......................................................................................................6

1.4 Goals........................................................................................................................ 6

1.5 Intended Training Schedules ...................................................................................7

1.6 Intended Audience & Prerequisites......................................................................... 7

1.7 The LPI Certification Program................................................................................ 8

1.8 Instructor Notice...................................................................................................... 8

1.9 No Guarantee........................................................................................................... 8

1.10 Resources............................................................................................................... 8

1.11 Notations................................................................................................................ 9

2 Installation.................................................................................................................... 9

2.1 1. The Installation CD ...........................................................................................10

2.2 2. Local Installations..............................................................................................11

2.3 3. Network Installation...........................................................................................12

2.4 4. Rescue disk........................................................................................................ 12

2.5 5. Partitioning Schemes......................................................................................... 14

2.6 6. Easy Dual Booting ............................................................................................ 15

2.7 7. Exercises and Summary.....................................................................................16

3 Hardware Configuration.............................................................................................20

3.1 1. Resource Allocation...........................................................................................20

3.2 2. PC Expansion Cards.......................................................................................... 23

3.3 3. USB Support...................................................................................................... 23

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3.4 4. SCSI Devices..................................................................................................... 25

3.5 5. Network cards.................................................................................................... 27

3.6 6. Setting up modems.............................................................................................29

3.7 7. Printer Configuration......................................................................................... 35

3.8 8. Sound Cards....................................................................................................... 36

3.9 9. Exercises and Summary.....................................................................................38

4 Managing Devices......................................................................................................42

4.1 1. Disks and Partitions........................................................................................... 42

4.2 2. Partitioning Tools:............................................................................................. 44

4.3 3. Bootloaders........................................................................................................ 46

4.4 4. Managed devices................................................................................................48

4.5 5. Quotas................................................................................................................ 51

4.6 6. Exercises and Summary.....................................................................................52

5 The Linux Filesystem.................................................................................................56

5.1 1. The Filesystem Structure................................................................................... 57

5.2 2. Formatting and File System Consistency.......................................................... 59

5.3 3. Monitoring Disk Usage......................................................................................62

5.4 4. File Permissions and Attributes......................................................................... 63

5.5 5. Exercises and Summary.....................................................................................70

6 The Command Line....................................................................................................75

6.1 1. The interactive shell...........................................................................................76

6.2 2. Variables............................................................................................................ 77

6.3 3. Input, Output, Redirection................................................................................. 79

6.4 4. Metacharacters and Quotes................................................................................ 82

6.5 5. The Command History.......................................................................................84

6.6 6. Other Commands............................................................................................... 85

6.7 7. Exercise and Summary...................................................................................... 88

7 File Management........................................................................................................94

7.1 1. Moving around the filesystem........................................................................... 94

7.2 2. Finding Files and Directories.............................................................................95

7.3 3. Handling directories...........................................................................................97

7.4 4. Using cp and mv................................................................................................ 98

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7.5 5. Hard Links and Symbolic Links........................................................................ 99

7.6 7. Touching and dd-ing........................................................................................ 100

7.7 8. Exercises and Summary...................................................................................102

8 Process Management................................................................................................105

8.1 1. Viewing running processes.............................................................................. 106

8.2 2. Modifying Processes........................................................................................107

8.3 3. Processes and the shell.....................................................................................109

8.4 4. Exercises and Summary...................................................................................111

9 Text Processing........................................................................................................ 114

9.1 1. cat the Swiss Army Knife................................................................................ 114

9.2 2. Simple tools..................................................................................................... 116

9.3 3. Manipulating text............................................................................................. 119

9.4 4. Exercises and Summary...................................................................................122

10 Software Installation...............................................................................................124

10.1 1. Introduction.................................................................................................... 125

10.2 2. Static and Shared Libraries ........................................................................... 127

10.3 3. Source Distribution Installation..................................................................... 131

10.4 4. The RedHat Package Manager RPM ............................................................ 135

10.5 5. Debian Package Management........................................................................ 142

10.6 6. The Alien Tool............................................................................................... 148

10.7 7. Exercises and Summary................................................................................. 148