Linux Lab#LI01-2: Install at least three distributions

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📘 Linux Lab#LI01-2: Install at least three distributions

• Create separate boot, var, home, swap, and filesystem root partitions (five partitions total). Leave at least 100MB of empty, unused, unpartitioned hard disk space for a future task.
• Choose whatever desktop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are available for your selected distributions.
• Create a user during installation, and make that user the administrator. This grants the user sudo permissions.
• Once installation is complete, explore the built-in help features:
  • Use man pages to research the fstab file.
  • What are the differences between the various man page sections? Admins primarily use sections 1, 5, and 8—why?
  • How can you do a keyword search within man pages?
  • What can be found at /usr/share/doc?
  • Explore whatever GUI help files might be available.
• Complete the Vim tutorial (the command is vimtutor) to get comfortable with Vim. You can use Nano if you prefer. Be certain you can create, open, edit, save, and close configuration files before proceeding any further with these activities.
• Try configuring the installations for a specific time zone by using the tzselect command.
• Select one installation as your primary lab computer. Designate it as the “server” and select a second installation as a “client.” You will use these two systems in the remaining activities.This lab may serve many purposes, and you need some idea of what you want to use your lab to achieve.