Partitioning Your System - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 Installation Manual

Section 3.12:Partitioning Your System
If you select this option, all data on the selected hard drive(s) will be
removed by the installation program. Do not select this option if you
have information that you want to keep on the hard drive(s) where you
are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS.
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Keep all partitions and use existing free space
and partitions, assuming you have enough free space available on your hard drive(s).
Using your mouse, choose the hard drive(s) on which you want Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS to be
installed. If you have two or more hard drives, you can choose which hard drive(s) should contain this
installation. Unselected hard drives, and any data on them, will not be touched.
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. An internal hard drive is necessary to use for partition creation with
problematic RAID cards.
If you have chosen to automatically partition your system, you should select
and manually edit your /boot partition.
Review
To review and make any necessary changes to the partitions created by automatic partitioning, select
the option. After selecting
Review
titions created for you in Disk Druid. You will also be able to make modifications to these partitions
if they do not meet your needs.
Click once you have made your selections to proceed.
Next

3.12 Partitioning Your System

If you chose automatic partitioning and did not select
Network Configuration.
If you chose automatic partitioning and selected
settings (click ), or modify the setup using Disk Druid, the manual partitioning tool.
Next
CAUTION
— select this option to retain your current data
CAUTION
and clicking
Review Next
Review
, you can either accept the current partition
Review
to move forward, you will see the par-
, please skip ahead to Section 3.16,
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