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Exercise: Hardware, Operating System, Basics and Help

  1. Hardware:
    1. Is it possible to have a SCSI adapter and SCSI devices (e.g., hard-drives, cd-burner)
      together with IDE devices (e.g., hard-drives, cd-rom, floppy) in one PC?
      Give reasons for your answer.
    2. Find out what kind of hardware is in you computer ( CPU, memory, etc).
      Look into the /proc directory, you can use cat to look at the content of a file.

  2. System:
    1. What is the distribution and version of you Linux system, which kernel version is running ?
    2. What is the version of the gcc compiler (start with man gcc or info gcc)?
    3. Challenge: What version of the C library glibc is installed (use rpm with the correct options on the file /lib/libc.so)?

  3. Numbers:
    How much is 1024 (decimal) in binary, octal and hexadecimal representation ?
    Challenge: Base 4 representation ?
    Greater challenge: Base 7 representation ?

  4. Help:
    1. Use the system help to find out about the commands: ls, cd, pwd .
    2. Use ls and cd to find the HowTo files in HTML format.
      Start in the directory /usr/share ....
    3. Use the lynx browser (or an other if not installed) to read the Ecology-HOWTO.
    4. Try: apropos DOS. What are the mtools?
      How can you copy the Ecology-HOWTO to a floppy in DOS format?