From Hardware to Software

This is a pre-recorded lecture that talks about the operating system and its component and also some hardware components. Some of the content below includes information about the Windows operating system. This year we will only focus on Linux as a server operating system though.

Keywords

server, hardware, operating system

Resources

• HTML-presentation
• Recording (Youtube)

Reading

An article about operating system OSU DevOps BootCamp
https://devopsbootcamp.osuosl.org/operating-systems.html

Demo

This demo shows the procedure of the installation and post-setup of operating systems. It uses the virtual box program and installs both Windows (optional) and Linux.

• Virtual box
  • The interface
  • Creating a machine
  • Configure hardware
  • Mounting ISO
• Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 Core (optional)
• Installing Ubuntu Server 14.04
• Post setup
  • Install Drivers/Additions
  • Showing network settings
  • Configure network
  • Getting updates
  • Configure firewall

Guest Additions

Install kernel headers and build tools

sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant
sudo m-a prepare

Mounting CD in Ubuntu

# find out the device
sudo blkid
# create directory to mount
mkdir ~/cdrom
# mount the cd
sudo mount /dev/sr0 ~/cdrom/

Compile virtualbox guest additions

# Navigate to the directory and run the script named VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
cd cdrom/
ls
sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
sudo eject
sudo reboot