Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Installation Manual

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Password
text field. To save the password as an encrypted password in the file, select
Encrypt
GRUB password
. If the encryption option is selected, when the file is saved, the plain text password
that you typed is encrypted and written to the kickstart file. If the password you typed was already
encrypted, unselect the encryption option.
If
Upgrade an existing installation
is selected on the
Installation Method
page, select
Upgrade
existing boot loader
to upgrade the existing boot loader configuration, while preserving the old
entries.
32.4. Partition Information
Figure 32.4. Partition Information
Select whether or not to clear the Master Boot Record (MBR). Choose to remove all existing partitions,
remove all existing Linux partitions, or preserve existing partitions.
To initialize the disk label to the default for the architecture of the system (for example,
msdos
for x86
and
gpt
for Itanium), select
Initialize the disk label
if you are installing on a brand new hard drive.
Note
Although
anaconda
and
kickstart
support Logical Volume Management (LVM), at
present there is no mechanism for configuring this using the
Kickstart Configurator
.
32.4.1. Creating Partitions
To create a partition, click the
Add
button. The
Partition Options
window shown in
Figure 32.5,
“Creating Partitions”
appears. Choose the mount point, file system type, and partition size for the new
partition. Optionally, you can also choose from the following: