Intel S5000PAL manual Automatic Partitioning, Disk Partitioning Setup

Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4*

Intel® Server Board S5000PAL

Figure 4-9. Disk Partitioning Setup

Warning: If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning Setup phase of the installation saying something similar to “The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.” you may not have a partition table on that drive or the partition table on the drive may not be recognizable by the partitioning software used in the installation program. Users who have used programs such as EZ-BIOS have experienced similar problems, causing data to be lost (assuming the data was not backed up before the installation began). No matter what type of installation you are performing, backups of the existing data on your systems should always be made.

Automatic Partitioning

Automatic partitioning allows you to have some control concerning what data is removed (if any) from your system. Your options are:

∙Remove all Linux partitions on this system — select this option to remove only Linux partitions (partitions created from a previous Linux installation). This does not remove other partitions you may have on your hard drive(s) (such as VFAT or FAT32 partitions).

∙Remove all partitions on this system — select this option to remove all partitions on your hard drive(s) (this includes partitions created by other operating systems such as Windows VFAT or NTFS partitions).

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