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Re: Teaching System Administration with limited hands-on


	I take a rather hands on approach. Including clients to work
	with and test machines. But most of my students have
	computers at home, so most of them could do the root thing
	on a home PC with linux. 
	
	If you look at my course area, you will find a list
	of resources for system admin classes:
	
	http://www.peak.org/dl/sysadm
	
			


Dan Marner <dmarner@marada-corp.com> writes:


 % I am teaching a course in System Administration as part of a graduate
 % program in Software Engineering. Since it is part of an SE program, and is
 % therefore targeted at developers rather than aspiring sys admins, I am
 % concentrating more on abstract issues such as writing a disaster recovery
 % plan than on platform-specific details.

 % That said, there is a lot of interest among my students in getting some
 % practical experience in the administration of UNIX and NT systems.
 % Unfortunately, I don't have a lab full of workstations on which I can hand
 % out root access. All of the students have user accounts on one HPUX
 % system, and that's it. Some will be willing to install Linux or BSD on
 % their own machines, and I plan to encourage that, but I can't require it.

 % Does anyone out there have ideas, experience or pointers to resources for
 % teaching system administration with little or no hands-on? 

 % Thanks, 
 % Dan Marner
 % 
 % --
 % Dan Marner                         Sys/Network/DB Admin
 % dmarner@marada-corp.com            Marada Corporation
 % (304) 534-5600                     Fairmont, WV
 % 

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