Partitioning With Fdisk; Boot Loader Installation - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX WS 2.1 Installation Manual

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS

3.12.7. Deleting a Partition

To delete a partition, highlight it in the Partitions section and click the Delete button. You will be

asked to conﬁrm the deletion.

Skip to Section 3.14 for further installation instructions.

3.13. Partitioning with fdisk

This section applies only if you chose to use fdisk to partition your system.

To partition your system without using fdisk, please skip to Section 3.11 for automatic partitioning or

Section 3.12 for partitioning with Disk Druid.

If you have already completed disk partitioning, skip to Section 3.14 for further installation instruc-

tions.

Caution

Unless you have previously used fdisk and understand how it works, we do not recommend that you

use it. It is much easier for new users to accidentally corrupt or lose data using fdisk .

Disk Druid is easier to understand than fdisk. To exit fdisk, click Back to return to the previous

screen, deselect fdisk, and then click Next.

If you have chosen to use fdisk, the next screen will prompt you to select a drive to partition using

fdisk. Once you have chosen which drive to partition, you will be presented with the fdisk command

screen. If you do not know what command to use, type [m] at the prompt for help.

When you are ﬁnished making partitions, type [w] to save your changes and quit. You will be taken

back to the original fdisk screen where you can partition another drive or continue the installation.

Note

None of the changes you make take effect until you save them and exit fdisk using the

You can quit fdisk at any time without saving changes using the

After you have partitioned your drive(s), click Next. You will need to use Disk Druid to assign mount

points to the partitions you just created with fdisk.

You will not be able to add new partitions using Disk Druid, but you can edit mount points for the

partitions you have already created. For each partition created with fdisk, click on the Edit button,

choose the appropriate mount point for that partition from the pulldown menu, and click on OK.

In order to boot the system without a boot disk, you usually need to install a boot loader. You can

choose to install either GRUB (selected by default) or LILO.

GRUB is a software boot loader that can be used to start Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS on your

computer. It can also start other operating systems, such as Windows 9x. Here, you will be asked how

(or whether) you want to conﬁgure a boot loader and which one (GRUB or LILO).

command.

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