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LPI exam 102 prep, Topic 106: Boot, initialization, shutdown, and runlevels

Junior Level Administration (LPIC-1) topic 106

Ian Shields (ishields@us.ibm.com), Senior Programmer, EMC

Ian Shields works on a multitude of Linux projects for the developerWorks Linux zone. He is a Senior Programmer at IBM at the Research Triangle Park, NC. He joined IBM in Canberra, Australia, as a Systems Engineer in 1973, and has since worked on communications systems and pervasive computing in Montreal, Canada, and RTP, NC. He has several patents. His undergraduate degree is in pure mathematics and philosophy from the Australian National University. He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from North Carolina State University. You can contact Ian at ishields@us.ibm.com.
(An IBM developerWorks Contributing Author)

Summary: In this tutorial, Ian Shields continues preparing you to take the Linux Professional Institute® Junior Level Administration (LPIC-1) Exam 102. In this second in a series of nine tutorials, Ian introduces you to startup and shutdown on Linux®. By the end of this tutorial, you will know guide a system through booting, set kernel parameters, and shut down or reboot a system.

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Date: 04 Apr 2006
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (91 KB | 23 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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