Book Image

CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By : Philip Inshanally
Book Image

CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By: Philip Inshanally

Overview of this book

The Linux+ certification provides a broad awareness of Linux operating systems, while giving professionals an upper hand in the IT industry. With this certification, you’ll be equipped with the all-important knowledge of installation, operation, administration, and troubleshooting services. This CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide will give you an overview of the system architecture. You’ll understand how to install and uninstall Linux distributions, followed by working with various package managers. You’ll then move on to manipulating files and processes at the command-line interface (CLI) and creating, monitoring, killing, restarting, and modifying processes. As you progress, you’ll be equipped to work with display managers and learn how you can create, modify, and remove user accounts and groups, as well as understand how to automate tasks. The last set of chapters will help you configure dates and set up local and remote system logging. In addition to this, you’ll explore different internet protocols, and delve into network configuration, security administration, Shell scripting, and SQL management. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have got to grips with all the modules you need to study for the LX0-103 and LX0-104 certification exams, but you’ll also be able to test your understanding with practice questions and mock exams.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
19
Mock Exam - 1
20
Mock Exam - 2

Installing a Linux Distribution

In the previous chapter, we looked at preparing the hard disk for use. We worked with the fdisk and parted utilities, looked at the steps to create and remove a partition, saw how we could resize a partition, and then turned our focus to formatting a partition for usage. In addition to this, we looked at the various filesystems available on today's Linux distributions. After that, we took a look at how to mount a partition to be able to start storing data. We then looked at unmounting a partition. Finally, we created entries in the /etc/fstab file to have our mount point(s) load upon system boot. In this chapter, our focus is now on the actual installation of a Linux distribution, the process involved with booting into a LiveCD, when installing Linux from scratch. Then we will focus on installing Linux side by side with a Windows OS. Finally...