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Home Work Assignment

53,168 Cylinders

500 GB

500 GB
----------------- = 9.4042 Mb/Cylinders
53,168 Cylinders

/boot 500 MB 1st
/home 200 GB 4th or 5th
/usr 200 GB 4th or 5th
swap 2.5 GB 3rd
/ 97 GB 2nd

Tell what type of partition for each partition.
Partition type is physical, logical, volume set

500 MB
----------- = 53.1677 Cylinders
9.4042 MB
/boot physical cylinders 1-54
/ 55-

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If you have an extra hard drive that you can put in your computer than this is a great distro of linux to learn on for the desktop. It is super easy to use and update.

Mandriva
Mandriva One for the linux that runs off of the CD that I am using in class.

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If you can not get your linux disk to boot from your computer when it is in the CD/DVD drive after you have restarted the computer then you will need to go into your BIOS and setup the boot sequence to where the CD/DVD drive is before the hard drive in the boot sequence order.

1. CD/DVD
2. Hard Drive

Then save your BIOS configuration and exit the BIOS setup screen. Then restart your computer and your computer will boot off of the CD/DVD that has linux on it.