DescriptionThis course is suitable to prepare for the Linux Professional Institute LPI 101 exam. It covers local administration tasks such as GNU/Linux installation, filesystems and UNIX permissions, process control, software and package maintenance, manipulation of data streams and pipes, hardware trouble shooting as well as the X Server - see below for more details.
Audience This course is aimed at Linux professionals with at least six months working experience. For IT professionals with little or no Linux experience please contact us for personal advice. PrereqsNone Deliveries For on-site training please mail
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Course Contents INSTALLATION 1. The Installation CD
2. Local Installations
3. Network Installation
4. Rescue disk
5. Partitioning Schemes
6. Easy Dual Booting
7. Exercises and Summary
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION 1. Resource Allocation
2. PC Expansion Cards
3. USB Support
4. SCSI Devices
5. Network cards
6. Setting up modems
7. Printer Configuration
8. Sound Cards
9. Exercises and Summary MANAGING DEVICES 1. Disks and Partitions
2. Partitioning Tools
3. Bootloaders
4. Managed devices
5. Quotas
6. Exercises and Summary
THE LINUX FILESYSTEM 1. The Filesystem Structure
2. Formatting and File System Consistency
3. Monitoring Disk Usage
4. File Permissions and Attributes
5. Exercises and Summary
THE COMMAND LINE 1. The interactive shell
2. Variables
3. Input, Output, Redirection
4. Metacharacters and Quotes
5. The Command History
6. Other Commands
7. Exercise and Summary
FILE MANAGEMENT 1. Moving around the filesystem
2. Finding Files and Directories
3. Handling directories
4. Using cp and mv
5. Hard Links and Symbolic Links
6. Touching and dding
7. Exercises and Summary
PROCESS MANAGEMENT 1. Viewing running processes
2. Modifying Processes
3. Processes and the shell
4. Exercises and Summary
TEXT PROCESSING 1. cat the Swiss Army Knife
2. Simple tools
3. Manipulating text
4. Exercises and Summary
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 1. Introduction
2. Static and Shared Libraries
3. Source Distribution Installation
4. The RedHat Package Manager RPM
5. Debian Package Management
6. The Alien Tool
7. Exercises and Summary
ADVANCED TEXT MANIPULATION 1. Regular Expressions
2. The grep family
3. Working with grep
4. egrep and fgrep
5. The Stream Editor sed
6. Exercises and Summary
USING VI 1. vi Modes
2. Text Items
3. Inserting Text
4. Cut and Paste
5. Copy Paste
6. Search and Replace
7. Undo and Redo
8. Running a Shell Command
9. Save and Quit
10. Exercises and Summary
THE X ENVIRONMENT 1. Introduction
2. Configuring X11R6
3. Controlling X clients
4. Starting X
5. The Display Manager
6. Troubleshooting X Clients
7. Choosing a Window Manager
8. Exercises and Summary
LPI 101 OBJECTIVES Topic 101: Hardware & Architecture
Topic 102: Linux Installation & Package Management
Topic 103: GNU & Unix Commands
Topic 104: Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
Topic 110: The X Window System
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