Objective: Learn to Plan for Installing Linux Description: In this study, you assume you would install Linux onto your own (physical not virtual) laptop computer, and plan for it. It is assumed that the Linux installation is to be used as desktop computer in classroom setting (same as the desktop computer you used in TBC classroom). The network environment is DHCP over 1GbE ethernet. IP/subnet mask/DNS are all assigned by DHCP. Requirements: You are required to, independently, investigate, study and search from available information sources to plan for the installation and write down the plan. This plan would cover/specify 1. (10 marks) hostname and your choice of Linux distribution with URL for downloading; installation media to be used (USB flash drive or DVD...) 2. (20 marks) hardware information of your own laptop computer, including brand name, model and serial number (required) as well as CPU model, RAM capacity, NIC (network interface card, type and MAC address), video adapter (supported highest resolution), CD/DVD (if it has one), storage device (model and capacity) 3. (20 marks) list of software packages (or functions) anticipated per users perspective; separate them in categories of mandatory (required) and nice-to-have; also put a note on what licenses are associated with these packages; Specifying if these packages are to be installed together with OS installation or to be installed separately after OS installation 4. (20 marks) disk drive partitioning by listing each partition with size, filesystem type and mount point; and your reasoning for the partitioning 5. (30) plan for backup user home directories (/home and subdirectories, assuming an NFS share is available for this purpose at nfsserver:/backup/ ): what you would add to /etc/fstab, what you would add to cron job table to accomplish your goal of backup