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Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
such as on a separate hard drive. An internal hard drive is necessary to use for partition creation with
problematic RAID cards.
A
partition is also necessary for software RAID setups.
/boot/
If you have chosen to automatically partition your system, you should select Review and manually
edit your
/boot/
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.
4.17. Partitioning Your System
If you chose automatic partitioning and did not select Review, skip ahead to Section 4.19 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. You may also need to create and/or delete partitions at this time.
Note
If you have not yet planned how you will set up your partitions, refer to Appendix D An Introduction
to Disk Partitions. At a bare minimum, you need an appropriately-sized root partition, and a swap
partition equal to twice the amount of RAM you have on the system. Itanium system users will need
a
partition of approximately 100 MB and of type FAT (VFAT), a swap partition of at least
/boot/efi/
512 MB, and an appropriately-sized root (
partition must be created on a partition outside of the RAID array,
/boot/
partition.
) partition.
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