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.Therefore, you need to specifyone Linux partition to be the root partition /.Size (Megs) Used to enter the minimal requested size of the partition.Unless changed, the minimum size is 1 meg.Growable? A check box to indicate that the size entered is a minimumor an exact size.If Growable is selected, the partition sizetries to fit all available disk space on the drive.Type Used to choose the partition type to be used for thepartition.This field is a highlighted scrollable section.Allowable Drives Another check box area that tells disk druid on whichdrives to try to create this partition.Ok Selecting this button tries to create the partition.Cancel Selecting this button aborts the addition of a partition.2 Installing Linux 21The F2-Add NFS option is used to add NFS partitions.NFS partitions are network partitionsand outside the scope of this section.The F3-Edit option is used to change an already existing partition.The dialog box thatappears enables you to edit various fields depending on whether the partition has been writtento the disk already.The F4-Delete option is used to remove the highlighted partition from the drive.A pop-upappears, asking to confirm this deletion.2The F5-Reset option is used to bring Disk Druid to the state it was before you made anychanges.All changes that have been made are removed.Any data on the mount points alsohas to re-entered.The Ok option is used to write changes to the disk drive.A confirmation pop-up appears, andif confirmed, the hard drives partition tables is written with the new data.The mount pointsthat have been chosen are passed onto the installation program to define the filesystem layout.The Cancel option bails you out of Disk Druid.Any changes made will be lost, and a pop-up dialog box is displayed, asking which step in the install should be to be done next.Working with Disk DruidGet out the pad of paper that contains your plan for your hard drive so you can be sure youknow which partitions you want to delete, and which you want to keep.Select the deleteablepartitions and press F4 to delete them.Remember that once you have removed these partitions and chosen theOk option the information in these partitions is gone.CAUTIONPress F1 and you are presented with the Adding Menu.For the purposes of this walkthroughyou will have two partitions: / and swap.The first partition will be /.In the mount point areatype / and tab to the size field.For the purposes of this example, enter 250 megs (change thisto fit with your earlier estimates).Select Linux Native as the partition, double-check all ofyour entries, and then select Ok.Create the swap partition in the same way, just be sure toselect Linux Swap as the partition type and then choose Ok.If your attempt to create the partition fails for some reason, an errorwindow pops up, explaining what the error is.More than likely the erroris that Disk Druid could not allocate the disk space for the drive currentlyJUST A MINUTEand you will need to edit the partition to be smaller or make otheralterations to accommodate the partition. 22 Hour 2Once you re done selecting the new partitions for your drive, select Ok or F12 and confirmthat you want to make the changes.The install goes to the next stage.Activating Swap SpaceOnce the partitions have been created, the install program searches for swap partitions.If itdoesn t find any it will warn you, and you can go back to the previous step of partitioningthe drives and set up a section to be swapped.If one or more swap spaces were detected, ascreen, shown in Figure 2.8, asks which partitions you wish to use for swap.Select the checkboxes of the partitions you want to use, and also select whether or not you want to check forbad blocks when it does the swap formatting.Once you are ready to continue, choose Ok.Figure 2.8.It s a good idea to haveLinux check for badblocks during formatting
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