User's Manual

34 Chapter 3:Installing Red Hat Linux
CAUTION
If you select this option, all data on the selected hard drive(s) will be
removed by the installation program. Do not select this option if you
have information that you want to keep on the hard drive(s) where you
are installing Red Hat Linux.
• Keep all partitions and use existing free space
— select this option to retain your current data
and partitions, assuming you have enough free space available on your hard drive(s).
Using your mouse, choose the hard drive(s) on which you want Red Hat Linux to be installed. If you
have two or more hard drives, you can choose which hard drive(s) should contain this installation.
Unselected hard drives, and any data on them, will not be touched.
To review and make any necessary changes to the partitions created by automatic partitioning, select
the
Review option.
After selecting
Review and clicking Next to move forward, you will see the partitions created for you
in Disk Druid. You will also be able to make modifications to these partitions if they do not meet your
needs.
Click
Next once you have made your selections to proceed.
3.10 Partitioning Your System
If you chose automatic partitioning and did not select Review, please skip ahead to Section 3.12,
Network Configuration.
If you chose automatic partitioning and selected
Review, you can either accept the current partition
settings (click
Next), or modify the setup using Disk Druid, the manual partitioning tool.
If you chose
Manually partition with fdisk, please skip ahead to Section 3.11, Partitioning with
fdisk .
At this point, you must tell the installation program where to install Red Hat Linux. This is done by
defining mount points for one or more disk partitions in which Red Hat Linux will be installed. You
may also need to create and/or delete partitions at this time (refer to Figure 3–7, Partitioning with Disk
Druid).