Installation guide

Note
The Upgrade existing boot loader option does not function at the time of General
Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue is being addressed, and the
functionality will be made available in an errata release.
4. Partition Information
Figure 29.4. Partition Information
Select whether or not to clear the Master Boot Record (MBR). Choose to remove all existing
partitions, remove all existing Linux partitions, or preserve existing partitions.
To initialize the disk label to the default for the architecture of the system (for example, msdos for
x86 and gpt for Itanium), select Initialize the disk label if you are installing on a brand new
hard drive.
Note
Although anaconda and kickstart support Logical Volume Management (LVM), at
present there is no mechanism for configuring this using the Kickstart Configurat-
or.
4. Partition Information
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