MAKING LINUX WORK FOR YOU

Schedule for 1/5 and 1/7, 5-7 PM, room 3-133.

People:

	Pat McCormick
	Aaron Ucko
	Erik Nygren
	Emil Sit

Some points:

	- Short questions are encouraged; long questions deferred to Q&A period.
	- There will be a Q&A period at the end of each session.
	- There will be a 5 minute break in the middle of each session.
	- We are using HTML pages on the video projector, as well as
	  actually demonstrating most things on limekiller.
	  The directory is /afs/sipb/project/iap/linux/www97.

	- Remember the usual stuff: talk slow, look at the audience,
	  avoid tangents, smile and have fun.

TUESDAY:

1. Introduction, hello, schedule for the next two days.  (pat)

2. What is Linux and why would you want it or not want it? (aaron)

	(demonstrate logging into lime, send zephyrs, etc.)

	- What is an operating system?
	- What is Linux?
	- What is Linux-Athena?
	- What can you do? What can't you do?
	- Hardware requirements and recommendations
	- What Athena software is available?  What isn't? (pat)

3. Installation  (Emil)

	- What is a distribution?
	- What is RedHat?

	- How to make boot disks
 	- Partitioning and repartitioning

 	- How to do the rest of the install   (START INSTALLING HERE)

 	- Other packages you may want to install  (show the install menus)
 	- How to install the Athena stuff on top of an existing
 		RedHat system

	(there is a break here, somewhere.)
 
4. Configuring X  (Erik)

	- Summary of video card jargon and how they work
 	- How to do it in the easy case (run Xconfigurator)
 	- How to look for help in harder cases
	- Installing XFree 3.2.

5. Q & A period

6. Goodbye, point to web page for help, explain schedule for Thursday.

THURSDAY:

7. Greet everyone, introduce ourselves, schedule for the day. (pat)
 	
8. Where to get help and more information  (pat)
	- The web page; starting point for all resources
	- iLinux-Athena
	- FAQ's, HOWTOs
	- Redhat docs, LDP docs
	- Books in stores
	- Newsgroups
	- discuss, MIT mailing lists
 
9. Kernel Hacking		(aaron)
	- What is a kernel?
	- Getting kernel source
	- Rebuilding a kernel
	- Modular vs. Monolithic
  
10. System Administration

	(emil)
	A. Securing your system
		- Making your machine secure
 		- Tickets and tokens
 		- Periodically updating  (update.pl)

	[ Break here (?) ]

	(aaron)
	B. Redhat Administration
		- Adding athena and local users
 		- Using the RedHat control panel for fstab, printing, etc.
		- Glint package system for installing extra stuff after the
			install.
		- RPM system; updating your system software

	(erik)
	C. Everything else
 		- Setting up a web or ftp server (note limitations of ftpd)
 		- Overview of filesystem and important files
 			(shared libs, /etc, /var/log, /etc/rc.d, etc)
 		- Mounting other partitions
 		- Backing up

11. Q & A period

12. Goodbye and good luck!
