Lab 01
Lab 01
Lab 01
LAB 1
Student ID : 1201101527
Name : Desmond Gan Ming Sen
Section : 1B
1. You need to install Linux server in the Lab PC using VirtualBox. Identify the minimum
requirement on RAM and disk space for THREE (3) most popular Linux server namely Fedora,
OpenSuSE and Ubuntu. Compare with the requirement of OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
2. Identify the CPU type and speed, RAM size and hard disk size of your PC/notebook. Use and
show command/program in Windows or Linux to be use during the identification process.
3. Most of Linux distro are freely available and distributed in the format of ISO files. Normally it
come with MD5 or SHA sum file. Explain what is ISO file, MD5 and SHA sum.
An ISO file is an exact copy of an entire optical disk such as a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray
archived into a single file.
The MD5 (message-digest algorithm) hashing algorithm is a one-way cryptographic
function that accepts a message of any length as input and returns as output a fixed-
length digest value to be used for authenticating the original message.
SHA sum is a Perl program to calculate any of SHA-1, 224, 256, 384, 512 hashes.
sha3sum is a similarly named program that calculates SHA-3, HAKE, RawSHAKE, and
Keccak functions. The <hash>sum naming convention is also used by the BLAKE team
with b2sum and b3sum , by the program tthsum , and many others.
4. Download Debian ISO file and compute and verify their sum using certutil, HashMyFiles
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html , md5deep, mdsummer or any other program
that can compute hash for a file.
5. Install Debian Linux in your Lab PC using VirtualBox. In VM setup, set 2GB RAM and 10GB
disk size. Capture the installation process.
Note:
Use snipping tools to capture screen
Save the file at your Desktop as PDF. Use file name as : Section-Lab1-StudentID-Name.pdf
Upload the file to Google Classroom.