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the RAID card. In cases such as these, the /boot/ partition must be created on a

partition outside of the RAID array, such as on a separate hard drive. An internal

hard drive is necessary to use for partition creation with problematic RAID cards.

A /boot/ partition is also necessary for software RAID setups.

If you have chosen to automatically partition your system, you should select Re-

view and manually edit your /boot/ partition.

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, the parti-

tions created for you in Disk Druid appear. You can make modifications to these partitions if

they do not meet your needs.

Click Next once you have made your selections to proceed.

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If you chose one of the three automatic partitioning options and did not select Review, skip

ahead to Section 20, “Network Configuration”.

If you chose one of the automatic partitioning options and selected Review, you can either ac-

cept the current partition settings (click Next), or modify the setup using Disk Druid, the manual

partitioning tool.

Note

Please note that in the text mode installation it is not possible to work with LVM

(Logical Volumes) beyond viewing the existing setup. LVM can only be set up us-

ing the graphical Disk Druid program in a graphical installation.

If you chose to create a custom layout, you must tell the installation program where to install

Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is done by defining mount points for one or more disk partitions

in which Red Hat Enterprise Linux is installed. You may also need to create and/or delete parti-

tions at this time.

Note

If you have not yet planned how to set up your partitions, refer to Chapter 25, An

Introduction to Disk Partitions and Section 18.4, “Recommended Partitioning

Scheme”. At a bare minimum, you need an appropriately-sized root partition, and a

swap partition equal to twice the amount of RAM you have on the system. Itanium

system users should have a /boot/efi/ partition of approximately 100 MB and of

18. Partitioning Your System