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Standard Operating Environment (SOE) for Student Lab Machines running Linux

Drafted By

Katherine Lim

Document Version

8.2

Date

8th November 2011

For information on specific versions and licensing conditions, please refer to the list of packages.

Base SOE

Application

Software

Version

Operating System Scientific Linux 5.x
Productivity Software OpenOffice 3.1.1
Web Browsing Firefox 3.6.23
Archiving Software GNU tar 1.15.1
GNU gzip 1.3.5
Info-ZIP zip 2.31
Info-ZIP unzip 5.52
PDF Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3
Secure Remote Login OpenSSH 4.3p2
Window System X.org X11 7.1
Window Environment KDE 3.5.4

Please Note

This is the BASE software only. There are a large number of software packages that are available on the Lab Machines. Please visit the list of packages for further information on the extra software that would be available to you.

Image Deployment

Example image deployment with ZENworks:

img pc2 131 6144
img pc3 fat32 4096
img rp 130.194.97.21 //its/img1/its/linux2011s1.zmg a1:p3

mount -t vfat /dev/sda3 /mnt/floppy
gzip -dc /mnt/floppy/linux2011.dd.gz | dd of=/dev/sda2 bs=4k

echo "root (hd0,1)" > /grub.cfg
echo "setup (hd0)" >> /grub.cfg
echo "quit" >> /grub.cfg

grub --batch < /grub.cfg