Reference Guide

6 Important Information
Reviewing Pre-configuration Options
Your Dell computer is pre-configured with the settings described in the
following sections.
X Window Settings
The following default video settings are configured for your computer:
• The X Window System starts when you boot your computer (run level 5).
• The GNU Network Object Modeling Environment (GNOME) is the
default desktop.
• Video resolution is set to 1024 x 768 pixels and an appropriate color depth
is set for your video card.
• The following generic scan rates are defined:
– Horizontal 31 to 54 kHz
– Vertical 50 to 120 kHz
Storage Partitions
Depending on your software RAID configuration, Dell will configure
partitions described in one of the following tables:
Table 1. No Software RAID Configured
Mount Point Partition Size Default Partition Type
/boot 200 MB ext3
/ Grow to full VolGroup00 (ext3)
swap Automatically determined by the
Red Hat installer
VolGroup 00 (swap)
/mnt/disk[1,2,3] Variable* ext3
*
If there is more than one hard drive present, each additional disk will be partitioned and format-
ted, and mounted to /mnt/disk1, /mnt/disk2, or /mnt/disk3.
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