Sunday 13/02/2005

Notes

It`s was givin by our good talker member Ahmed El-Makawy AKA Linuxawy and it was good start. The pepole liked the idea of learning something new like GNU/Linux...

Who We Are:

• what is eglug
  • who we are ?
  • who the pepole that will give the course
  • it`s totally Volunteer work from Eglug
  • it`s totally Volunteer work from Life Makers Alex

Background:

• History of GNU/Linux
  • When and why Unix have been coded.
  • when and where BSD have been coded.
  • GNU' Not Unix and Richard Stallman.
  • Linus and the kernel
• 4 Freedoms
• GPL
• Why Linux
  • Security
  • Open Source.
  • No worms ,no crush and no more blue screen of death.
  • Almost no price.
  • True multiuser system.
• What Linux Consistes Of
  • Kernel
  • X server
  • GNU tools
  • GNU Development tools
  • Desktop
• What is Mount points
  • Linux singel Tree system
  • /mnt
  • why mount?
• Hardware problems
  • Winmodems problem.
• How to get help
  • distro. docs.
  • Google.com/linux
  • eglug.org
  • Eglug Channel @ irc.freenode.net

• Alex Life Makers Team Burned 10 copies Of Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official (3CDs) And Give It To The Attenders For Free.
• Every Attender Had To Pay 20 Egyption Pound For The Full Course (10 Hours) As A Rent Of The Pcs To The Education Center.

Tuesday 15/02/2005

Notes

Today it was about Mandrakelinux Installation , givin by Sherif Nagy AKA DarKnesS_WolF Don`t know if it was good enough or no...

Installation BackGround:

• How to boot to the cdrom
• what is the basic concepts of installing any oprating system:
  • Partitoning.
  • Hardware Detection.
  • Locale Selection ( Keybord / Time / Location ).
  • Package Selection.
  • Boot Loader.

The Installation:

• what F1 do
  • low resultion installation.
  • text mode installation.
• How to add arabic keybord and change Arabic To / From English.
• Security Levels.
• Partitioning:
  • Get the harddisk ready for Installation under windows by delet one partition from windows.
  • Use resizing tool if u have one partition.
  • What is the 4 chocies:
    • Use Free Space.
    • Erase Entier Disk.
    • Use The Free Space Of The Windows Partition.
    • Custem Disk Partitioning.
  • using Ext3
  • using custem partitioning
    • /
    • Swap
    • /home
• what is / and what / have inside.
  • / is directory and physical driver in the harddisk.
  • why we can have sperated /home.
  • quick look at / and what inside it from directories ( should be explaned at another time but people asked )
• Packages Slection:
  • what is workstation packages.
  • what is servers packages.
  • what is LSB.
  • what is GUIs packages.
• Root User:
  • password should be hard and complex.
  • very important user.
  • root home directory is /root NOT /.
  • use no password when ur the only one that using the computers , no internet connection and know what ur doing.
  • using advanced options when your network using any authentication services.
• Add users:
  • Accept user.
  • Add more than one user.
  • user auto login KDE.
• Boot Loader
  • install it as MBR is the best for new users.
• Hardware Configration:
  • Conutry
  • Time
  • AutoDetect the sound card / mouse / printer /
  • Network Didn`t configured yet.
  • Graphical interface
    • Card Detected
    • Must test the options.
    • chose the resultion.
  • What is Services.
  • Firewall ( No Firewall )
• no updates since no connection.
• Last Screen
  • Advanced
    • Creat Disk to install the same system u installed.
      • ask u for partitioning.
      • remove the whole harddisk.
    • save the package selection.
  • Reboot

• TWO USERS DIDN`T COME ( ONE USER CAME 1ST CLASS , AND ONE EVEN DIDN`T CAME THE 1ST CLASS ) BUT THERE IS WAS A REPLACEMENT.
• EGLUG PAMPHLETS PRINTERD PAPERS FOR ALL THE ATTENDERS ( PRINTED BY LINUXAWY , PHOTOCOPY BY LIFE MAKERS ALEX TEAM ).