Linux Class at Communiversity

[Leo J Mauler]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:06:29 -0600 Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at comcast.net>
writes:
> Jason Clinton wrote:
> 
> > Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:24 am, Jason Clinton wrote:
> >>
> >>> This class  will cover a complete Linux installation from 
> >>> scratch and lots of vocabulary and schemas. 
> 
> >> What distribution?
> > 
> > I will be doing a Gentoo GRP installation on the overhead 
> > because it's educational in nature. Perhaps not as educational 
> > as a Slackware install but it still lies within the required time 
> > constraints.
> > 
> > If students want to install other distros, they are welcome to 
> > and I'll do my best to assist. I will also provide CD's to any
> > of the major distros if people want them.
> 
> They will definitely get exposed to Lilo or GRUB (you should 
> cover both),  but don't make it all about installation.  Hopefully 
> that is something you only have to do a couple of times.  Luckily 
> this is something that RedHat has 90-95% done and they don't 
> mess with it a lot.  Debian has kind of neglected this area and 
> Mandrake spends way too much time redoing the installer.

If this is a "please include this in the class" discussion, one thing
I've always wanted to learn in Linux is how to uninstall software. 
Frequently I run into situations, even with package managers, where some
little bit of package remains uninstalled, or some config file remains
behind, and causes problems with new versions of the same software and
sometimes with other software packages.

Will you cover network file systems at all?  I've never figured out NFS,
and while I can mount a SMB share from an existing Windows PC on my Linux
box, I've never figured out how to do the reverse: share a Linux SMB
share with a Windows PC.  I would suspect that sharing a Linux partition
with a Windows PC comes up A LOT in office environments!

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