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Chapter 1 ✦ Installing SUSE 10
One key thing to know when defining and experimenting with disk partitioning is
that none of the changes that you are defining are actually performed until you
explicitly tell YaST to proceed with the installation. You can make as many changes
or experiment with different partitioning schemes as much as you want without
actually committing those changes. Aborting the SUSE Linux installation at any time
before this point will leave your system’s disk exactly as it was when you started
the installation process.
What you do next depends on your requirements:
✦ If you want to accept the default partition layout selected by YaST, select
Accept proposal as-is, click Next, and skip ahead to the section of this chapter
entitled “Selecting Software for Installation.”
✦ If you are an experienced Linux user, or you just want to specify your own cus-
tomized partitioning scheme, select Create custom partition setup and click
Next. Then, select the Custom partitioning - for experts option, and click Next
(see Figure 1-10). This presents you with the option to create and delete parti-
tions, as well as other advanced options such as software RAID and crypto-
graphic filesystems.
Figure 1-10: Selecting custom partitioning
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