Thank you all for coming to our first seminar (and thanks to Paul, who did a pretty good job, presenting it)!

For those, who would like to review this presentation concentrating on “surviving Linux in a command line”, please follow the link: Linux Command Line seminar.

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Our first seminar is going to be held on Wednesday at 5 p.m. in Bruner 404. We will be going over tips and tricks to Linux that would not only benefit those that are not experienced, but also those that are!

We will be covering many, many topics that you might not want to miss out on!

This seminar is geared to the beginner with little or no Linux command experience however, we will be giving tips and tricks that more experience users may also find helpful. I would ask those of you with more experience to come as well and help/support everyone else. A brief abstract is show below to give you all an idea of the topics we will be talking about.

Side note: All of the demonstrations we will do will be done in Kali Linux which is a Debian based GNU/Linux Distribution. http://www.kali.org/

Help! How do I Survive in a Linux Command Line

• This seminar is designed to bring someone up to speed on the basics of using the Linux command line.

Topics that will be covered:

• Ways to get access to the Linux command Line on Windows
• Linux File System
• Navigation tools
• Command Line text editors
• Resources to use to find help
• Installing Software / Updating
• Utilities
• Administrative tools
• Network tools
• Displaying Files / editing files
• etc.

For getting started, please follow the instructions below:

1. Go to Virtual Box, download and install the VirtualBox platform packages for your particular OS.

2. Download “Kali Linux” from either Kali Linux 1.0.5 32-Bit ISO or Kali Linux 1.0.5 32 Bit Torrent).

3. Open up the VirtualBox application and you will see something like this (without Kali being installed):

4. Press “New” at the top left corner.

5. Name your new virtual machine as Kali Linux.

6. Choose “Type” – Linux.

7. Choose “Version” – Debian and press “Next”.

8. In the “Memory size” window you can choose more or less memory allocated for Kali Linux (384 or 512 MB is pretty much enough; besides, you will be able to change all those settings at any time). Press “Next”.

9. Choose “Create a virtual hard drive now” and press “Next”.

10. Choose VDI (Virtual Disk Image) and press “Next”.

11. Choose “Dynamically allocated” and press “Next”.

12. You can leave the “File location and size as it is (8 GB) or you can add more if you want to, for example, you can choose 10 GB). Press “Create”.

13. After creating this, you need to add your Kali Linux .iso image to the virtual machine. So, go to “Settings” of the Kali Linux in the Virtual Box Manager. Then choose “Storage” menu, click on the “Empty” of the virtual CD controller and click on “Set up the virtual CD/DVD drive” as shown below:

14. In the pop-up window choose the location of the Kali Linux.iso image, previously downloaded.

15. Press “OK” in the “Settings” window.

16. Now you can start your new virtual machine! Click on “Start” in the Virtual Box Manager.

18. Choose “Install with a graphical mode” on the screen.

17. Follow the instructions on the screen.