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Chapter 17. Installing on IBM System z Systems
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once you have made your selections to proceed.
17.14. Partitioning Your System
If you chose to create a custom layout, you must tell the installation program where to install Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. This is done by defining mount points for one or more disk partitions in which Red
Hat Enterprise Linux is installed.
Figure 17.13. Partitioning with
Disk Druid
The partitioning tool used by the installation program is
Disk Druid
. With the exception of certain
esoteric situations,
Disk Druid
can handle the partitioning requirements for a typical installation.
17.14.1. Graphical Display of DASD Device(s)
Disk Druid
offers a graphical representation of your DASD device(s).
Using your mouse, click once to highlight a particular field in the graphical display. Double-click to edit
an existing partition or to create a partition out of existing free space.
Above the display, you can review the
Drive
name (such as /dev/dasda), the
Geom
(which shows the
hard disk's geometry and consists of three numbers representing the number of cylinders, heads, and
sectors as reported by the hard disk), and the
Model
of the hard drive as detected by the installation
program.
Finally, note which device is associated with
/boot
. The kernel files and bootloader sector will be
associated with this device. For most common cases, the first DASD or SCSI LUN will be used, but