Red Hat LINUX ES 2.1 Installation Manual page 17

Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
1.5.2.1. What a Custom Installation Will Do
As you might guess from the name, a custom installation puts the emphasis on flexibility. You have
complete control over which packages will be installed on your system.
If you choose automatic partitioning, a Custom installation will create the following partitions:
Note
The partitions represented below were created on a system with 9 GB of hard drive space and 512
MB of RAM. Depending on the amount of hard drive space and memory you have available, these
values may differ slightly.
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. 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.
For this example, a 1020 MB swap partition (mounted as
A 47 MB partition (mounted as
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A 2609 MB root partition (mounted as
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partition is dependent on your available disk space).
) in which the Linux kernel and related files reside.
/boot
) in which all other files are stored (the exact size of this
/
swap ) is created.
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