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Record all system modifications and other events
| Date | System Modification | System Event |
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Diagnose any system problems
| Date | System Problem | Solution used |
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Make a note of system usage and any growth
| Date | Description |
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Make a note of the security implementation and its success, remember not to keep these records in an unsafe place.
List your system hardware components and as suggested in the course material, check the hardware's compatibility with the operating system that you are installing.
For each hardware component record the following information:
| Item | . |
| Manufacturer | . |
| Serial # | . |
| DMA | . |
| IRQ | . |
| Base Address | . |
| Description (any further relevant driver information)Is it compatible with the operating system that you are installing and where did you find the compatibility information. Anything to be careful of in future or in the case of a re-install? | . |
| Application | Description | |
| Software-Name | Short description of the installation, problems, resources allocated, serial numbers, licenses and any other pertinent information. |
Decide on your backup procedure whether full or incremental, daily, weekly etc. Then create a log that you can refer to especially at restore time or if handing over the system to someone else (see Chapter 4).
Check in the man or info pages if you do not know these commands:
For managing files we covered ls, mv, cp, rm, grep, file and find.
We displayed files with cat, more, pg, less, head and tail.
Managed directory files with cd, mkdir, rmdir, pwd and copy.
Used input/output redirection with >, <, >> and |
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