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A sample of a completed worksheet follows.
18.
19.
20.
21.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Enter size in MB.
(written down in the procedure
Verifying Hard
Disk Size)
Enter number of cylinders.
(written down in the procedure Installation of the
UNIX Operating System)
Divide number of cylinders by number of MB (b / a)
and enter the result rounded up to the nearest integer. 16
Multiply the value in Step c above by 6.
96
This is the number of cylinders for/swap.
Multiply the value in Step c above by 14.
224
This is the number of cylinders for/root.
Mutliply the value in Step c above by 17.
272
This is the number of cylinders for/usr.
The system calculates the value for /usr2
431
after you have entered the values for /swap,
/root, and /usr.
68
1024
Enter the
Enter the
Enter the
Your disk
Is
cylinder allocation for swap/paging.
cylinder allocation for root.
cylinder allocation for /usr.
allocation displays and the following prompt appears:
this allocation acceptable to you (y/n) ?
If it is correct, type
Y
and press (Enter).
If it is incorrect, type
n
and press (Enter), then reallocate the
cylinders.
After allocation, messages report that the UNIX operating system is
being built on the hard disk. Disk 1 takes approximately 25 minutes
to copy to the hard disk.
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