Tutorial Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version) - Exercise 0

Exercise 0. The Setup

Windows, Manual Installation

Windows, VirtualBox virtual appliance (preconfigured image in .ova format)

What you will need

1. VitualBox, a virtual machine player.
2. putty, terminal emulator.
3. Preconfigured VirtualBox image with Debian.
   

Do this

1. Download and install VirtualBox

2. Download and install Putty.

3. Download this file: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bw1iG1X4Li39ZlhkQmgtM1BhV2s

Another link: http://thepiratebay.se/search/vm1.ova/0/99/0

Or yet another link: http://fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=gf78117efb38017f19991890063f232bd5cd39165a

md5: 7ac8a6059460f7f3e39aee7c4ee2c230 
sha256: 18d8f31d0894c89865d5306b0cb3284d8889e15d155c7435fc7888f3dbafa3ec

4. Open this file.

5. Click Import.

6. Select vm1 and click Start.

7. Wait for vm1 to boot.

8. Launch putty, enter localhost into Host Name (or IP address) field and click Open.

9. Type in user1, <ENTER>, 123qwe, <ENTER>.

10. Congratulations, you are now logged into vm1!

Linux

1. You already use Linux, what else do you want? Joking, you may follow windows guide fairly closely or just experiment on your live system, but with discretion.

MacOS

1. I will add steps here someday too.