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26 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
these files is a good idea. For most users, a 50 MB boot partition is sufficient. In Disk Druid , the
partition field for
/boot
should look similar to:
/boot hda1 50M 50M Linux native
Caution
If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders (and your system was manufactured more than two
years ago), you may need to create a
/boot
partition if you want the
/
(root) partition to use all of
the remaining space on your hard drive.
Caution
If you have a RAID card, be aware that some BIOSes do not support booting from the RAID card.
In cases such as these, the
/boot
partition must be created on a partition outside of the RAID
array, such as on a separate hard drive.
•
A
root
partition (350 MB - 3.2 GB) — this is where "
/
" (the root directory) will be located. In this
setup, all files (except those stored in
/boot
) are on the root partition.
A 350 MB partition will allow you to install a minimal Custom installation (without the Server
packages), a 1.0 GB root partition will permit the equivalent of a default Server (with GNOME or
KDE) installation (with very little free space), while a 3.2 GB root partition will let you perform a
full Custom installation, choosing everything.
In
Disk Druid
, the partition field for
/
should look similar to:
/
hda5 3734M 3734M Linux native
3.12.5. Adding Partitions
To add a new partition, select the New button. A dialog box appears (see Figure 3-8).
Note
You must dedicate at least one partition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, and optionally more. For
more information, see Appendix D.