Archive for September 16, 2008

Learning to Install Dynamips and Dynagen in Debian

After a week of reading and researching on Dynamips and Dynagen, we finally managed to download the 2 files.

Apparently, the OS we were using were Debian-Linux. Therefore, in order to install the programs, we needed to have a basic knowledge on shell commands. After a fast and clear tutorial by Mr. Wagio on the few commands, we could install the programs on the other computer on our own. During the process, we learnt of shell commands such as “apt-cache search”, “apt-get install” and how to convert a file into an executable.

However, as we needed to do our reports on Microsoft Word and our slides on Microsoft Powerpoint, we reformatted our computers again to Windows XP Professional. This time, with the usage of a disk that had all the installation files for the drivers.

We managed to install Dynamips and Dynagen within a couple of minutes and will be trying it out tomorrow at the lab again.