Assignment 3

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Assignment 3

• Due 24th November 2006
• Rules
• Joint submissions by up to three people are
  allowed.
• Students are encouraged to draw on other peoples
  work. Any such use of the work of others must be
  specifically acknowledged failure to do so will
  attract penalties.
• Plagiarism will be severely penalised.
• Postgraduate students are available on Wednesday
  mornings as timetabled to provide assistance if
  required.
• Assignments should be emailed to
• Michael.Ryan_at_dcu.ie
• Subject MSSF Assign3

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Assignment 3 (cont.)

• Assignment
• Either
• construct a bootable floppy disc based version
  of Linux. -- this should require no more than
  two floppies.
• or
• set up a bootable memory stick for use on a USB
  port
• You should configure your system to be as small
  as possible, while still able to access as many
  as possible of the resources on the system. As a
  minimum you should be able to access the file
  system on the hard disc.
• Submit a brief report (lt 4 pages), indicating
  the configuration choices you made, the
  capability of your system, the amount of space it
  required, and any particular difficulties
  encountered.
• References
• See Eamonn McGonigles notes
• Check the WWW for Pocket Linux