Section 3.12:Partitioning Your System
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CAUTION
If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders (and your system was man-
ufactured more than two years ago), you may need to create a
/boot
partition if you want the
/
(root) partition to use all of the remaining
space on your hard drive.
CAUTION
If you have a RAID card, be aware that some BIOSes 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.
•
A
root
partition (350 MB - 3.2 GB) — this is where "
/
" (the root directory) will be located. In
this setup, all files (except those stored in
/boot
) are on the root partition.
A 350 MB partition will allow you to install a minimal Custom installation (without the Advanced
Server packages), a 1.0 GB root partition will permit the equivalent of a default Advanced Server
(with GNOME or KDE) installation (with very little free space), while a 3.2 GB root partition will
let you perform a full Custom installation, choosing everything.
In
Disk Druid
, the partition field for
/
should look similar to:
/
hda5
3734M
3734M
Linux native
3.12.5 Adding Partitions
To add a new partition, select the
New
button. A dialog box appears (see Figure 3–8, Creating a New
Partition).
Note
You must dedicate at least one partition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, and
optionally more. For more information, see Appendix F, An Introduction to
Disk Partitions.
Summary of Contents for ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 -
Page 1: ...Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2 1 The Official Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Installation Guide ...
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Page 26: ...26 Chapter 1 Steps to Get You Started ...
Page 30: ...30 Chapter 2 System Requirements Table ...
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Page 95: ...Part II Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS ...
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Page 156: ...156 Appendix A Additional Resources for LVS Clustering ...
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