Advanced Server Installations; Custom Installations - Red Hat LINUX ADVANCED SERVER 2.1 Manual

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Advanced Server
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server includes technology and services appropriate for enterprise
servers hosting mission critical applications. Ideal for high-availability and failover solutions,
Advanced Server is a reliable and powerful server that delivers the best Red Hat innovations while
protecting the stability of your server applications. Advanced Server is intended for the contin-
uous operation of reliable, constant load internet and intranet applications (such as databases),
especially supported third-party software solutions.
Custom
A custom installation allows you the greatest flexibility during your installation. You choose your
boot loader, which packages you want, and more. Custom installations are most appropriate for
those users more familiar with Red Hat Linux installations and for those afraid of losing complete
flexibility.
These classes give you the option of simplifying the installation process (with some potential for loss
of configuration flexibility), or retaining flexibility with a slightly more complex installation process.
Next, take a detailed look at each class, so you can see which one is right for you.

1.4.1. Advanced Server Installations

A Red Hat Linux Advanced Server installation will install your choice of the GNOME or KDE desk-
top environments, or both, and the X Window System (the graphical software on which the desktop
environments are based).
Below are the minimum recommended disk space requirements for installations where only one lan-
guage (such as English) will be installed.
Advanced Server without a desktop environment: 1.8 GB
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Advanced Server choosing GNOME or KDE : 2.3 GB
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Advanced Server choosing both GNOME and KDE: 2.8 GB
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If you plan to choose all package groups (for example, GNOME is a group of packages), as well as
select additional individual packages, you may want to allow yourself 3 GB or more of disk space.
1.4.1.1. What an Advanced Server Installation Will Do
If you choose automatic partitioning, an installation will create the following partitions:
A 100 MB partition (mounted as
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the ELILO configuration files, and other related files reside.
The size of the swap partition is determined by the amount of RAM in your system and the amount
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of space available on your hard drive. For example, if you have 128 MB of RAM then the swap
partition created can be 128 MB - 256 MB (twice your RAM), depending on how much disk space
is available.
A root partition (mounted as
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dependent on your available disk space).

1.4.2. Custom Installations

The custom installation allows you the most flexibility during your installation.
The recommended disk space requirements for a custom installation are as follows:
and formatted as type vfat) in which the Linux kernel,
/boot/efi
) in which all other files are stored (the exact size of this partition is
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Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started