This is a work in progress. You’re going to work on three different systems as homework assignments.
This will start to look better.
Virtual box
Use VirtualBox to set up a virtual machine on one of the systems in RRO 223. You may complete this task with another person, because I don’t think there are enough computers for everyone to have their own.
Initial idea
Why we do not store virtual machines on the server?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox
Connect to /playpen
Note size -- how many virtual machines can this contain
Note protection
Look at playpen/ISO -- protection
Look at /playpen/VM -- protection (any files there???)
copy /csciloc/ubuntu/Distributions/ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
to /playpen/ISO
Start virtualbox
Place your virtual disk image in /playpen/VM
And use fixed 16 Gbytes
That's more than the default
Be leaves space for others
Otherwise use defaults
Don't download updates on the install
Wait until the reboot
Reboot
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
Check out networking (NAT)
Create a user
Google cloud
Create an virtual machine running some flavor of Linux with Google Cloud Computing using the account provided for this class.
Raspberry Pi
The first step is to use one of the Raspberry Pi systems to create an account for yourself. The second step is to set one up from scratch complete with a CGI-enabled web server attached to some I2C device.
Mastering Node-RED would be super.