Workstation -- Recommended for a newbie

Server -- Erases all other partitions on the disk

Custom -- For the geeks!

Upgrade

Make a selection based on your requirements. For a clean install with

everything, you should go in for the workstation. The server installation

will only install the bare minimum server applications and tools. Don't

choose this if you want the GUI because it doesn't install that. You will

be forced to install all that manually. Another option here is to upgrade

from a old installation. This option worked quite well when we tried a few

upgrades. Here we chose the workstation installation.

The next screen gives a choice of partitioning the Hard disk.

Auto partition -- recommended, but requires partitions to be created before hand

Manual using disk druid

Manual using fdisk

You could do a manual partition using Disk Druid, the GUI partitioning

or you could use fdisk, which is a text based tool but not very easy to

use. Disk Druid is fairly easy to use but the Linux partitioning scheme

could be a bit confusing for newbies. Linux refers to your IDE devices

like hard drives and CD-ROM drives as hda, hdb etc where hda will

represent the master devices on the primary IDE, hdb will represent the

slave device on the primary ide and so on. Then each device will be

divided into hda1, hda2. These are the partitions on your device. Hda1 is

the primary partition on your first drive. Primary partitions can go up to

number 4 and beyond that you have the logical partitions represented by

hda5, hda6. Partitions can be created if you have free space. If not then

delete the partitions that you don't require and create new partitions in

the free space created.

For a default workstation installation you should have at least a 600-700

MB partition. Add another 128 MB for a swap partition, which you will need if

you are going to be using the GUI extensively. So make sure you have about

800 MB free on your hard drive.

In case you have already pre-partitioned the hard disk, select auto

partition. What happens is that Anaconda recognizes the ext2 partition you

have already created and installs a swap partition and a root partition on

this space. If not then we recommend disk druid.

Network configuration

You need to contact your system administrator for

the following information:

IP address

Hostname

Primary DNS