Schedule For Tuesday

January 7, 5-7 PM, Room 3-133

What is Linux?

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)

Installation

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

Configuring X

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.

Q & A period