Installation guide

26 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Warning
The Red Hat Update Agent downloads updated packages to /var/spool/up2date/ by default.
If you partition the system manually, and create a separate /var/ partition, be sure to create the
partition large enough (3.0 GB or more) to download package updates.
Figure 4-9. Disk Partitioning Setup
If you chose to manually partition using Disk Druid, refer to Section 4.16 Partitioning Your System.
Warning
If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning Setup phase of the installation saying something
similar to
The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initial-
ized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.
you may not have a partition table on that drive or the partition table on the drive may not be recog-
nizable by the partitioning software used in the installation program.
Users who have used programs such as EZ-BIOS have experienced similar problems, causing data
to be lost (assuming the data was not backed up before the installation began).
No matter what type of installation you are performing, backups of the existing data on your systems
should always be made.