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Partitioning the hard drive – Nortel Networks NN10265-111 User Manual

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NN10265-111 MCS 5100 3.5 Standard 4.0 January 2006

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Copyright © Nortel Networks Limited 2006

Figure 39 Red Hat: Installation Type screen

5

For Bad Partition Table, select Initialize.

Partitioning the hard drive

The following includes instruction to partition the hard drive.

From the terminal server

1

Press w and press Enter to save changes and exit.

2

Select Done and press Enter to continue.

3

At the Disk Setup screen, select the individual partitions and
press Tab to move to the Edit button. Press Enter.

4

Type in the mountpoints. The highlighted line indicates the
current cursor position. Press Enter, input the mountpoint in the
text box, and press Enter again.

Partition 1: mountpoint = /boot

Partition 2: mountpoint = /

Partition 3: /swap

Partition 5: mountpoint = /var

Partition 6: mountpoint = /usr

Partition 7: mountpoint = /IMS

It is not necessary to enter the mountpoint for the swap partition,
as this occurs automatically when this partition is designated as
a swap partition.

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