If you don't want to install ubuntu and other softs to finish these labs, you can use VirtualBox soft (https://www.virtualbox.org/) and
a virtual disk image with all these softs.
You can download this virtual disk image -- oslabs_for_student_2012.zip (576.2MB,) from http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=69868&uk=2585194235, which
is an VirtualBox disk image (contains ubuntu 12.04 and needed softs, and is zipped with zip and xz format), and can be unzipped
by haozip software (http://www.haozip.com).
After unzip oslabs_for_student_2012.zip, you will get
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C:\vms\ubuntu-12.04.vbox.xz
C:\vms\ubuntu-12.04.vmdk.vmdk.xz
C:\vms\ubuntu-12.04.vmdk-flat.vmdk.xz
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then you will continue unzip all these files, and get
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C:\vms\ubuntu-12.04.vbox
C:\vms\ubuntu-12.04.vmdk.vmdk
C:\vms\ubuntu-12.04.vmdk-flat.vmdk
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If you installed VirtualBox soft, then the last step is: double clik file "ubuntu-12.04.vbox" and run ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox.