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Exercise #9 for NET2003 due March 14-21, 2005
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-Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca

Remember - knowing how to find out an answer is more important than
memorizing the answer.  Learn to fish!  RTFM!  (Read The Fine Manual)

Global weight: 2% of your total mark this term
Due dates:
  1. in-lab live demos March 14
  2. electronic deliverables due March 21

The electronic deliverables for this exercise are to be submitted online
on the Course Linux Server using the "datsubmit" method described in
the exercise description, below.  No paper; no email; no FTP.

Late-submission date: I will accept without penalty electronic
deliverables that are submitted late but before 23h00 on Wednesday,
March 23.  After that late-submission date, the electronic deliverables
are worth zero marks.  In-lab demos cannot be submitted late.

Exercises submitted by the *due date* will be marked online and your
marks will be sent to you by email after the late-submission date.

Marks: 2%

Exercise Synopsis (Summary Description):
    Partition your hard drive caddy.  Create Linux file systems.
    Copy a Mandrakelinux Mini system CDROM iso file to one partition.
    Configure the GRUB bootloader.  Boot an installer kernel and
    install a Mandrakelinux Mini system from the Mini CDROM iso file.
    Boot the Mini system.

Where to work:
    Work anywhere that you can install your hard drive caddy and have
    Knoppix booted with networking at the same time.  Since you need to
    fetch a 330MB iso image file, you need broadband networking.

Exercise Preparation:
    See notes and readings in:
       week08notes.txt, week09notes.txt, mandrake_install.txt.

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Exercise Details (on your Knoppix System)
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Have you done all the preparation steps?  If not, go back and do them.

Finish your Notes Readings (see the weekly Notes files).
Any questions?  See me in a lab or post questions to the Discussion
news group (on the top left of the Course Home Page).

Most of the work under Knoppix will require that you become the root
user using the "su" command.  Your prompt will change to include a "#"
character, warning you that you have elevated privilege.

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mandrake_install.txt
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Following the directions given in mandrake_install.txt, install the GRUB
bootloader and a Mandrakelinux Mini system on your hard drive caddy.

Before you start, may find it useful to take a copy of the
mandrake_install.txt file and globally change the string "hdX" to be
correct for your computer and hard drive caddy (e.g. "hda" or "hdb").
Reading the correct hd letters in the directions will make the directions
easier to understand and easier to type without making mistakes.  The vim
editor can make this global substitution in one line, just as you did
in Step 5 of Exercise #1.

In-Lab Demo #1 March 14:
    After you have completed creating all the partitions and file systems,
    just before you fetch the 10.1 Mini Install iso image, demonstrate
    the correct output of "sfdisk -l" and "df" to your instructor.

In-Lab Demo #2 March 14:
    Demonstrate that you can reboot your machine into GRUB and use GRUB
    to select the second menu entry "Mandrake10.1Mini" to bring up the
    newly installed Mandrake Mini system.

Electronic Submission:
    Submit (datsubmit) a copy of your completed boot/grub/menu.lst file.
    (You will need to use scp to copy the file to the linux server.)

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Electronic Submission
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Remember to copy your work off your Knoppix system before you shut it down!

Submit the files for marking:

   $ datsubmit 09 menu.lst

Always submit all files for marking at the same time.