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installation.
4. The installation program goes to ‘Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5’ interface, click
<Next> to continue the installation.
5. Select to install language version of the operating system, here we select
‘English (English)’ for installation and click <Next> to continue.
6. The installation program enters into Keyboard selection interface. Here we
select U.S. English and click <Next> to continue the installation.
7. You can select to enter in the pop-out ‘Installation Number’ interface. If you
enter the installation number, all the software packages applicable to your Installation
Number will be provided; here we select ‘Skip entering Installation Number’ and click
<OK> to continue the installation. Click <Skip> on the newly pop-out interface to
continue the installation.
8. When the system prompts ‘Would you like to initialize this drive
，
erasing ALL
DATA?’, we default it as a brand new installation and select <Yes> to continue. When
the installation program enters into installation ways selection, the user can select
them according to his actual condition. Here the installation shall take the customizing
manual partitioning as an example, please select ‘Create Custom layout’ and click
<Next> to continue the installation.
9. When the installation program enters into partition creating interface, (if
partition has been created on the hard disk, it will be showed, and you can delete it if
you do not need it), select the disk, and then click ‘New’ to create new partition.
(1) Select root partition in Mount point: /, enter the size of partition in Size(MB)
and click <OK> to
fi
nish the creating of partition. Create the boot partition in the same
way: /boot.
(2) Create a swap partition (Swap). Click ‘New’ to create new partition. Select
‘Swap’ in File system Type and enter the size(MB) of the swap partition in Size (MB)
and click <OK> to finish the creating of swap partition (set according to the size
of memory, if the memory is smaller than 512MB, set as twice of it. If the memory
exceeds 512MB, you can set it as 2GB).
You can also create other partitions as needed, click <Next> to continue the
installation after the creation.
10. The installation program enters into Boot Loader setting interface, set as
needed and click <Next> to continue the installation.
Chapter Five Installation of the Operating system
Chapter Five Installation of the Operating system
