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Research Seminar - March 25, 1998

Seminar Announcement


Title: LINUX Workshop Presentation
Speaker: Chris McDonald
  Computer Science
Date: Wednesday 25 March, 1998
Time: Warning 3.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Warning Geography Lecture Theatre 2 (GGLT2)

Abstract

This week's seminar departs from the normal format, and consists of a technical presentation regarding the installation of LINUX. It is intended to be of interest to students or staff who:

  • Are considering installing LINUX on their home PCs, or
  • Have tried to install LINUX, but not had too much success.

Topics to be covered include

LINUX versions and distributions, installing LINUX from floppies and CD-ROM, file systems and backups via floppy disks, building boot/rescue disks, getting X-windows running, getting the modem and PPP running, installing netscape and Java,

and if time permits -

getting a local Web server running, building a new kernel.

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