Linux Space Station Raven : 05-Planning

(C) Graham Swallow
gps@trix.dircon.co.uk

1. Planning
2. Component hardware £1500 Bill
3. Cabling
4. Leased Lines
5. Allocating IP Addresses
6. Name Space - Allocating
7. disks
8. Twin Boot Upgrade
9. DOS permissions
10. Resources
11. Raven OverView

1. Planning

• 1.1 Planning and Allocating

2. Component hardware £1500 Bill

• 2.1 Example Bill

3. Cabling

• 3.1 Home Ethernet Cables
• 3.2 Office House Cables
• 3.3 Office Floor Cables
• 3.4 Point to Point

4. Leased Lines

• 4.1 Leased Lines
• 4.2 Multiplexed throughput
• 4.3 Probable Demand
• 4.4 Measured Demand
• 4.5 Feeding the feeder
• 4.6 LAN / WAN monitors
• 4.7 Queue Delays
• 4.8 Unseen Delays

5. Allocating IP Addresses

• 5.1 PRIVATE LAN IP addresses
• 5.2 20 LANS per Site
• 5.3 Registered addresses
• 5.4 RFC 1918 private addresses
• 5.5 What is IP and addresses?
• 5.6 MULTI-ADDRESS machines
• 5.7 Ethernet addresses (-aka- MAC, DTE)
• 5.8 So what is Intranet?
• 5.9 DNS NIS ...

6. Name Space - Allocating

• 6.1 USER
• 6.2 GROUP
• 6.3 HOST names
• 6.4 LAN names
• 6.5 SMTP domain names
• 6.6 SITE names
• 6.7 HOST names
• 6.8 ASCII
• 6.9 Permanant Internet Connections

7. disks

• 7.1 rewrite pending
• 7.2 100 MB
• 7.3 300 MB
• 7.4 500 MB
• 7.5 670 MB >= CDROM
• 7.6 670 MB X N
• 7.7 670 MB + 350 MB
• 7.8 670 MB x 3 + 350 MB
• 7.9 64 MB swap
• 7.10 1024 Cylinders
• 7.11 LILO Configuration
• 7.12 Partition names
• 7.13 N-partition Limit
• 7.14 Recognising Drives
• 7.15 350 MB partitions
• 7.16 100 MB Partitions
• 7.17 800 MB partition
• 7.18 2.5 Gig partition
• 7.19 News and Flooding
• 7.20 Multi Partition fs
• 7.21 1.3 Gig disk
• 7.22 1.7 Gig disk
• 7.23 350 of 2000 is less than a fifth

8. Twin Boot Upgrade

• 8.1 boot old, boot new
• 8.2 Test it ...
• 8.3 Add a new disk
• 8.4 shared disks

9. DOS permissions

• 9.1 /dos/c
• 9.2 Access
• 9.3 My Configs
• 9.4 My Configs - why
• 9.5 Mount Control
• 9.6 Group Control
• 9.7 The really simple way
• 9.8 Other Limitations
• 9.9 Don't do it

10. Resources

• 10.1 Books

11. Raven OverView

• 11.1 Raven
• 11.2 Raven/EyeView £25
• 11.3 Linux As An Internet Server
• 11.4 An Internet Workstation
• 11.5 Windows-95 aside
• 11.6 Action List
• 11.7 Issue-0-Base-Station-Zero
• 11.8 Issue-1-Hardware - The Tower
• 11.9 Issue-2-SysBuild - Linux OS
• 11.10 Issue-3-Internet-Working
• 11.11 Issue-4-Users-view: Now what's this?
• 11.12 Issue-5-Planning
• 11.13 Download
• 11.14 Other places - Linux FAQ's and HOWTO's
• 11.15 Browser access