1.3 Disk Partitioning - HP Tc2120 - Server - 256 MB RAM Installation Manual

2. At the "Keyboard Configuration" screen, select U.S. English and click Next.
3. At the "Mouse Configuration" screen, select the appropriate mouse for your
system, and click Next.
4. At the Installation Type screen, choose the type of installation to be performed.
Choose Server or Custom.

1.3 Disk Partitioning

1. At the "Disk Partitioning Setup" screen, choose Manually partition with Disk
Druid. Click Next.
2. You may see a Warning box pop up that says that "the partition table on device
xxx is unreadable, would you like to initialize this drive?" Click Yes as many
times as this comes up.
3. Locate the drive you wish to install to/boot from. If there are existing partitions
on this drive, select them and click Delete. A warning box will come up to
confirm the deletion, click Delete. Repeat this for every partition on this drive.
Note that the partitions and all data within them will be lost.
4. Create, at minimum, three new partitions for the Linux installation as follows:
Table 2: Partitions for Linux Installation
Mount Point
/boot
/
swap
5. Click New.
a. For "Mount point," enter /boot.
b. Make sure "File System Type:" is set to ext3.
c. Under "Allowable Drives," make sure only your boot device is selected. If
you do not, you may end up with an installation that spans multiple drives.
d. Set "Size (MB)" to 100.
e. Make sure "Additional Size Options" is set to Fixed Size.
Partition Type
Boot Partition Ext3
Root Partition Ext3
Swap Partition swap
Size
100Mb
2Gb+
2xRAM size
73