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A course on Opensolaris and Java to PESIT college

After succesfully conducting opensolaris course for VTU edusat program
http://forum.vtu.ac.in/viewforum.php?f=66&sid=c32263832a2670fc43de488afc19cd88

SunMicrosystems India has made an tie up PESIT college (one of the premiere institute in Bangalore) to conduct a similar course for their students.
As part of this we are conducting a 40 hrs course comprising of
1> opensolaris - Introduction and some details
2> Java .

The students for this course will comprise of top students from various IT related branches of PESIT
who were selected after going through various selection process with in the college.
Courses will be held on every saturday from 9 am - 1 pm starting from August 19th 2006.

The tentetive  timetable for this is below...

	*Date*	*Topics*
	19 Aug 2006	Solaris Introduction- Look and feel of Solaris- Shell Programming - Packaging
	26 Aug 2006	Introduction to <nop>NetBeans and Sun Studio IDEs
	02 Sep 2006	Overview of Java Technologies
	09 Sep 2006	Java Programming Fundamentals
	23 Sep 2006	Object Oriented Concepts
	30 Sep 2006	Java Exception Model
	14 Oct 2006	Introduction to Java Threads
	28 Oct 2006	Graphical User Interface<br>- AWT and 2D
	04 Nov 2006	Graphical User Interface<br>- SWING
	11 Nov 2006	Extended Topics
	18 Nov 2006	Evolving Core Java Technologies
	25 Nov 2006	Tools on Solaris<br>- <nop>DTrace, truss, proc tools, mdb<br>- *stat<br>- modinfo<br>Solaris Internals<br>- Process and process data structures, LWPs
	02 Dec 2006	Solaris Internals - Part 2
	09 Dec 2006	Solaris Filesystems<br>- SPARC Architerture, Niagara<br>- Lab Tour

Each course will have 2 hours of theory and 2 hours of hands-on immediately after the theory.
So we needed to setup a solaris lab in the college before the start of this program.
Myself and Sheshadri vasudevan from my team went to the college on 16th Aug to help lab administrators of PESIT to setup a solaris lab.

The idea was to install 1st machine with DVD and show them how DVD installation works.
Then configure newly installed machine as jumpstart server and install another machine using jumpstart configuration.
Allow them to install few machines using jumpstart mechanism and make them fell comfortable with whole installation process.
Give some basic tips on adminstrering solaris using SMF framework.

We had got the details of the hardware from their lab incharge Sri Hari before we went to PESIT.
But we forgot to ask was the partition details of the harddisk.
Solaris can be installed only on a primary partition.

In their setup, they had exactly one primary partition (10 gb) on which they had Windows XP.
In remaining 70 GB, they had created extended partition and created lot of logical drives to install Linux.
So first thing we did was to delete all logical partitions and delete extended partition.
Create one more primary partition for solaris (18 gb) and left 50 gb on extended partition.

Now we installed solaris using DVD and then configured the same machine as jumpstart server and installed 6 machines using this jumpstart server.
Sheshadri setup pxeboot environment on that machine and also gave them a quick TOI on pxeboot.
I gave a demo of SMF.

I will soon blog about setting up a jumpstart server to install x86 clients and what I do in my SMF demo.

Posted at 09:56AM Aug 17, 2006 by madhu in Tech  |  Comments[1]