User's Manual

Section 1.4:Which Installation Class is Best For You? 17

• Workstation choosing GNOME or KDE : 1.5 GB

• Workstation choosing both GNOME and KDE, and games: 1.8 GB

If you plan to choose all group packages (for example, GNOME is a group of packages), as well as

select additional individual packages, you may want to allow yourself 1.8 GB or more of disk space.

If you provide this extra space, you will have room for additional data, if needed.

Note

Unlike workstation installations previous to Red Hat Linux 7.0, performing

a Red Hat Linux 7.2 workstation installation will not install the network dae-

mon xinetd (inet services). When xinetd is not installed, you will have a

more secure installation. However,in-bound network-related services such

as finger, telnet, talk, and FTP will not work.

If you require these types of

services, please go back and choose a server or a custom installation.

What a Workstation Installation Will Do

If you choose automatic partitioning, a workstation installation will create the following partitions:

• A 100 MB partition (mounted as /boot/efi and formatted as type vfat) in which the Linux

kernel, the ELILO configuration files, and other related files reside.

• The size of the swap partition is determined by the amount of RAM in your system and the amount

of space available on your hard drive. For example, if you have 128 MB of RAM then the swap

partition created can be 128 MB - 256 MB (twice your RAM), depending on how much disk space

is available.

• A root partition (mounted as /) in which all other files are stored (the exact size of this partition

is dependent on your available disk space).

1.4.2 Server Installations

A server installation is most appropriate for you if you would like your system to function as a Linux-

based server, and you do not want to heavily customize your system configuration.

Below are the minimum recommended disk space requirements for a server installation where only

one language (such as English) will be installed.

• Server (minimum, no graphical interface): 1 GB

• Server (choosing everything, no graphical interface): 1.3 GB

For example, you can telnet out to other systems, but other systems cannot telnet in to your system.