Partitioning the hard drive – Nortel Networks NN10265-111 User Manual
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Figure 39 Red Hat: Installation Type screen
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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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