Lecture 1

Notes

Installing a UNIX

  • Linux (RedHat 5.2) on an iX86. Instructions.
  • Solaris 7 on a SPARC. Instructions (will be available later).

    Information resources

  • Printed Linux material: Visit O'Reily at http://www.ora.com or http://linux.ora.com
  • Online Linux material: Sunsite at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ldp.html (this is the Linux Documentation Project)
  • Printed Solaris material: Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide. ISBN 1-57870-039-6
  • Online Solaris material: Visit Sun's documentation server at http://docs.sun.com
  • Anything: See http://www.dejanews.com

    Shell programming

  • Filesystem structure, basic commands
  • Input/output redirection, pipes

    Supplemental Texts (See information resources above).

    Related Links (See information resources above).