Ken Fallon, wants his 'Linux Professional Institute Certification' (LPIC). He must be serious, because he's publicly preparing for it on HPR – no pressure, Ken. In this first episode of the series, he explains the certification process, sets up his practice system, and begins covering study material, for the 101 exam. He's using a detailed study guide, provided by IBM developerWorks.
IBM Developer Works: (LPI) exam prep
The Booting Process of the PC
System Boot Sequence
https://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/boot_Sequence.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28computing%29
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Other Links:
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LPI Certification Self-Study Guide
https://www.happy-monkey.net/LPI/
Wiki Book: LPI Certification
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LPI_Linux_Certification
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Software:
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Vmware Server
https://www.vmware.com/download/server/VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
CentOS
https://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-netinstall.iso
Select FTP Site from mirror list
https://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13 ./5.1/os/i386/
E.g for ftp location:
ftp.tudelft.nl
pub/Linux/centos.org/5.1/os/i386/images
Debian Netinstall
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-netinst.iso
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Online Assesment
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https://www.redhat.com/apps/training/assess/
https://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim/lpi101sim/index.html

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