CS 182 System Administration
Group Project 1
Due Date - 17 February
Introduction
This project
is to be submitted as a
single report,
BUT
each member of the group is to be responsible for a particular
part.
I have not defined the parts in enough detail to
dictate how the project should be divided -
left to the group.
There are 2 reports from the previous course available in the
green file box.
Document the basic installation and configuration of
the UNIX system
on your machine.
I am looking for a well written report that discusses:
your machine,
modifications to your machine,
installation procedure,
configuration procedure,
file system set up,
device set up (software and hardware),
user set ups, etc.
Specific issues are probably best gleamed from
the first 13 chapters of the 'red book'.
What follows are
examples
of some specific issues that you
should discuss.
-
boot monitor and boot command
-
physical machine attributes
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disk layout
-
file system organization and protection issues
-
what file systems are mounted for single user mode
versus file systems mounted for multi-user mode
-
make multiple kernels for different configurations
-
add an alternative root, what are the boot commands
for the alternative root.
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process information
-
adding new users
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/etc/dev, device drivers, devices you have,
reconfiguration kernel to recognize a new device.
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terminal configuration & related files.
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scsi
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backups - how, why, when
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log files
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kernel configuration
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patches
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what undocumented features
almost destroyed your installation.
UNIX System Choices
Each team will install a different version of UNIX.
Choice will be based on a FIFO email to me.
We have licenses for all of these, but
there may be later versions than what we have
on source disks.
-
Solaris 1.1.2 -
The old Sun OS, also known as SunOS.
A variant of Berkeley UNIX 4.3 (UCB 4.3).
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Solaris 2.5 -
The new Sun OS.
A variant of System V.4 from AT&T.
Includes many of the Berkeley UNIX 4.3
features (supposedly integrated).
-
Berkeley UNIX 4.4 or some variant.
This is the final version of Berkeley UNIX.
What to Turn-In:
A report with details of your system installation.
You should also prepare a presentation which hits the
general structure of your system,
the high lights of your system,
and the low lights of your system.
Your report should contain details on any references
that you found useful, e.g., web pages and other books.
NOTES:
The team is to maintain a detail log book which shows all
the administration activities.
Last modified February 4, 1997 by mike@cs.hmc.edu