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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 Partition Boot Partition Root Partition Swap Partition Type Ext3 Ext3 swap Size 100Mb 2Gb+ 2xRAM size 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. 73

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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
Partition
Type
Size
/boot
Boot Partition
Ext3
100Mb
/
Root Partition
Ext3
2Gb+
swap
Swap Partition
swap
2xRAM size
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
.
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