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Chapter 2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
If you have a RAID card, be aware that some firmware do not support booting from the RAID card. In
cases such as these, the
/boot/
partition must be created on a partition outside of the RAID array,
such as on a separate hard drive. An internal hard drive is necessary to use for partition creation with
problematic RAID cards.
A
/boot/
partition is also necessary for software RAID setups.
If you have chosen to automatically partition your system, you should select
Review
and manually
edit your
/boot/
partition.
To review and make any necessary changes to the partitions created by automatic partitioning, select
the
Review
option. After selecting
Review
and clicking
Next
to move forward, the partitions created
for you in
Disk Druid
appear. You can make modifications to these partitions if they do not meet your
needs.
Click
Next
once you have made your selections to proceed.
2.15. Partitioning Your System
If you chose automatic partitioning and did not select
Review
, skip ahead to Section 2.16
Network
Configuration
.
If you chose automatic partitioning and selected
Review
, you can either accept the current partition
settings (click
Next
), or modify the setup using
Disk Druid
, the manual partitioning tool.
At this point, you must tell the installation program where to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This
is done by defining mount points for one or more disk partitions in which Red Hat Enterprise Linux
will be installed.
Note
If you have not yet planned how you will set up your partitions, refer to Appendix C
An Introduction
to Disk Partitions
. At a bare minimum, you need an appropriately-sized root (
/
) partition, a
/boot/
partition for pSeries systems (iSeries systems do not require a
/boot/
partition), PPC PReP boot
partition, and a swap partition equal to twice the amount of RAM you have on the system.
For iSeries users:
It is recommended to setup a PReP boot partition, either as your primary or backup boot method. The
size range of a PReP boot partition should be between 16 and 32 MB and it needs to be a primary
partition marked active.
