Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:17:46 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Subject: RFC - OSI Course Starter Kit... Message-ID: <20031025011746.GA7080@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Marc has been helping me figure out whether bothering to do this is worthwhile. So far the answer is maybe. ;-) Before I follow through with the work that packaging this up would be (I can find other things to do if this isn't worthwhile) I'd like to ask you folks to see if this is useful. I have the starts of what could be an Article on the Web site that would basically be an Instructor's Manual for setting up a lab to be used for a 2nd semester course teaching Operating Systems using (surprise...) FreeBSD as the base system. The starts of it are at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~kensmith/FreeBSD/crashlab.html though it needs some more work. Marc suggested adding more details about exactly what it takes to get the server set up for NFS and that sort of thing. Along with that there is a Lab Manual, equally in need of work but what I used for the Spring 2003 semester is at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~kensmith/FreeBSD/Lab_Manual.html. These materials along with McKusick's book he's currently working on should make setting up and teaching a kernel hacking class fairly straighforward. I was thinking about the crashlab.html becoming an Article on the Web site, and the Lab Manual being provided as an OpenOffice document because they'd need to be able to edit it (they wouldn't have the same machine names I use, would probably have their own additions to the Lab procedures, etc...). Thoughts? Is it worth doing? Should it be done, but done differently? Any suggestions about what to add other than more details on how to configure the lab in the Instructors' Manual? Thanks. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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