OS INSTALLATION PROCEDURE (worksheet 3)

OS INSTALLATION (QUAD BOOTING)
Hardware Requirements :

1) PC with SSE2 instruction set .You can use SSE3 but I have no experience with it
2) Empty Hard drive
3) D-link DWL-G122 Rev B1 wireless USB adapter

Software Requirements:
1) Gparted LiveCD
This is a great live cd that is pretty much specific for partitioning. It works with or without an operating system installed, partitions your drive straight forward.
2) Windows XP with Service Pack 2
NOTE: You should have SP2 or SP1 on the install CD, if you wish to install on to a hard drive larger than 137 GB (128 GiB). The original version of Windows XP does not support 48-bit LBA, and therefore suffers from the "137 GB limit".
3) Windows Vista
4) OSx86 10.4.8 install disc
5) Suse 10.1 (http://download.opensuse.org/)
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Partitioning
Getting Started

1) Boot into the GParted CD.
You should have a bunch of unallocated space.
2) Create partitions in the following order:
1 NTFS Primary Partition, (for WinXP)
1 NTFS Primary Partition, (for Vista)
1 FAT32 Primary Partition, (for OSx86)
1 Extended Partition (with the rest of the unallocated space on the drive),
The rest of the partitions will be within the Extended Partition
1 ReiserFS Logical Partition (for Linux install)

Installing XP

Install Windows XP with Service Pack 2 to your first NTFS Primary Partition.
After installation it is imperative you do the following so Vista's bootloader isn't installed:
1. Boot into Gparted CD
2. Right click on your first Primary NTFS partition (with xp installed on it) and select "Manage Flags" from the menu. Check "hidden"
3. Right click on your second Primary NTFS partition (with vista installed on it) and select "Manage Flags" again from the menu. Check "boot"
4. Restart the computer with the Vista CD in the CDrom drive




Installing Vista

Install this to the second NTFS Primary Partition. Should be a straightforward install. Plop in the disc and let r' rip!
NOTE: If you install Vista after another OS without doing the above steps, Vista will automatically install it's new boot loader which is a pain! You do not want Vista's boot loader installed for this tutorial!
After it's installed do the following:

1) Boot the Gparted CD again
2) Right click on your second NTFS Primary Partition and click on "manage flags". Uncheck "boot"
3) Right click on your first NTFS Primary Partition and click on "manage flags". Uncheck "hidden"

Installing OSx86
Plop in your OSx86 DVD and load it up. You will install this to the FAT32 Primary Partition. Once you are at the first install prompt follow these directions:

1) Go to Utilities > Disk Utility
2) Select your partition that you want to be OSX and go to the Erase tab
3) For Volume Format, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
4) Click Erase. Now the partition should not be grey, it should be black to indicate that it is active.
5) Close out of the Disk Utility and move onwards with installation.
After installation, your computer will automatically boot into OSx or you will get a "HFS+ Partition Error"
NOTE: After installation you might receive a "HFS+ Partition Error". I'm not 100% sure why this happens sometimes and why other times it doesn't appear at all. Regardless, you should be able to move ahead with the next steps and get everything to work. Don't worry if you see this error.


Configuring The Boot loader.

Adding OSx86 to the GRUB menu
To add OSx86 to the GRUB menu do this:
1. Copy the folder "i386" from the OSx cd (which is located at /usr/standalone/i386) and put it in /boot/grub/ The i386 folder is hidden normally so ensure you can see all hidden files in whatever operating system you are currently in. What I did is copied the files over in windows to a flash drive and then copied them from the flash drive to my home space and then used the following command in the terminal: cp -r /home/i386 /boot/grub/i386
2. Go To Applications > System > YaST
3. Go To "System" and select "Boot Loader"
4. Click "Add"
5. Select "Other System (Chainloader)"
6. Type in OSx86 for your Section Name and for Device select browse.
7. Browse to where you saved your i386 folder and select the chain0 file. This means you should have /boot/grub/i386/chain0 in the field where it says device
8. Click OK and you're done.
NOTE: If you try editing the menu.list file straight, it will not show OSx as a choice. You must initially use Yast in order to get the option to show in GRUB then if you desire you can edit it manually.

Adding OSx86 to the Windows XP bootloader (for those having trouble with grub)
Adding OSx86 to the boot loader is an easy task. The instuctions below may seem long but the process is basically adding chain0 to boot.ini and that's it. Whilst grub is more powerful, the extra features are not needed so XP's boot loader will do just fine.
1. Boot Windows XP
2. After Login, Insert the Mac OS X86 DVD and Copy chain0 to the root of the C: drive. You should then have the file C:\chain0. (Chain0 is found on the Mac CD in /user/standalone/i386 but Windows can't read Mac formatted Discs. It seems that this folder is formatted differently so you might find chain0 in the root of the DVD. If you can't find it, download the Mac OS X darwin 10.4 x86 binaries and copy /user/standalone/i386/chain0 from this. The darwin CD is found here.
3. In the explorer window, go to the "tools" menu and select folder options. Under the "View" tab, check "Show hidden files and folders" and deselect "Hide protected operating system files".
4. In the root of the C:\ drive, you should now be able to see boot.ini. Right click this file and click "Properties". In the window that appears, uncheck "Read Only".
5. Double click boot.ini so it opens in notepad (or some other text editor)
6. On the last line of boot.ini, add C:\chain0="OSx86"

Aquiring wireless internet in OSx86
Getting internet to work in OSx86 is pretty easy with the D-link DWL-G122 Rev B1 wireless USB adapter.
1. Download D-Link drivers from RalinkTech.
2. Install and restart computer.
3. When you plug in the adapter, the RaLink utility will pop up automatically. You'll have to wait a minute or two, but you should have internet. If for any reason you don't have internet, try unplugging the USB adapter and plugging it back in.

Acquiring wireless internet in Linux
Select Applications > System > YaST
• Click Software > Software Management
• Type in "ndis" in the search field
• Select ndiswrapper and all of it's counterparts and install. Now you need to locate and install the Windows-based drivers for your device. There are two files that you will need to find. One is an *.inf file that basically tells your machine how to setup the driver and the other is the actual driver itself which has a *.sys extension.
• Locate your *.inf and *.sys driver files on your wireless adapter driver disc.
• In a terminal window browse to where you copied the two files. Then type in the following:
ndiswrapper -i .inf
Where is go figure, the name of your driver.
To ensure it installed correctly type:
ndiswrapper -l
It should say "driver installed"
• Next load NdisWrapper by typing:
modprobe ndiswrapper
Check to make sure the driver is loaded properly by typing:
iwconfig
If you were successful, you will see an entry in wlan0 detailing wireless information
• Go To Applications > System > Yast
• Select Network Devices > Network Card
• Select User Controlled with network manager
• Click "Add"
• For Device Type select "Wireless" and for Configuration Name type "0"
• Click next, next again, and enter in your network information (SSID, encryption key, etc.)
• We need to make sure NdisWrapper loads every time Suse loads, so go to Applications > System > YaST > System > /etc/sysconfig Editor
• Go To System > Kernel > MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT
• Type in: ndiswrapper

Mounting a Windows Network Share in OSx86
From The Finder click Go->Connect To Server
Type in smb:///
You can also click Browse and use the finder to try to find your server. This will only show servers within the same workgroup though...

Mounting a Windows Network Share in Linux
Make a directory for the mountpoint by typing in the terminal: mkdir /mnt/
• Mount the share by typing in the terminal: mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= /// /mnt/

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NETWORK OS CERTIFICATION

TYPE	NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM COVERED	CERTIFICATE TITLE	COURSES AND TRAINING REQUIRED FOR CERTIFICATION
Microsoft	The Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) credential proves that you have the skills to successfully support end-users and to successfully troubleshoot desktop environments that are running the Microsoft Windows operating system	Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST	• Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System • Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System
IBM	Linux operating system and its associated tools	Linux Professional Institute (LPI) certification	LPIC-1 It covers basic skills for the Linux professional that are common across all distributions of Linux. LPIC-2 Plan, implement, maintain, keep consistent, secure, and troubleshoot a small mixed (MS, Linux) network, including a: LAN server (samba) LPIC-3 Proposed specialties include the following: Mixed Environment, Security, High Availability and Virtualization, Web and Intranet, and Mail and Messaging.
Apple	Mac OS X	Apple Certified Support Professional 10.5	Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.5 Exam (9L0-402