Lecture #1 An Orientation and Overview of the Course

Agenda

• Web Tour: www.cabrillo.edu/~jgriffin
  1. Home page
  2. Syllabus
  3. Calendar
• Opus Overview
  User accounts:
  1. Use Putty to log in to your Opus account.
  2. Edit your PATH variable in your .bash_profile to include /home/cis191/bin in your PATH.
  3. Register for CIS191 forum on opus.cabrillo.edu/forum.
• Introduction to VMware vCenter server: cislab.cabrillo.edu
  1. Download Remote Desktop RDP client
  2. Log into CISVLAB using the VpxClient
• Overview of Installation techniques for GNU/Linux distributions

Assignment:

1. Read chapters 1 and 4 from the UNIX and Linux Administration Handbook.
2. Do Lab 0
3. Extra Credit

Resources:

1. PowerPoint Slides
2. HowTo: Installing Remote Desktop Client
3. HowTo: How to Create a Virtual Machine on a VMware ESXi server.
4. In-Class Lecture
5. Lecture 1 Archive