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for you in Disk Druid appear. You can make modifications to these partitions if they do not meet your
needs.
Click Next once you have made your selections to proceed.
2.13. Partitioning Your System
If you chose to partition manually, you must tell the installation program where to install Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. This is done by defining mount points for one or more disk partitions in which Red
Hat Enterprise Linux is installed.
Figure 2-9. Partitioning with Disk Druid
The partitioning tool used by the installation program is Disk Druid. With the exception of certain
esoteric situations, Disk Druid can handle the partitioning requirements for a typical installation.
2.13.1. Graphical Display of DASD Device(s)
Disk Druid offers a graphical representation of your DASD device(s).
Using your mouse, click once to highlight a particular field in the graphical display. Double-click to
edit an existing partition and assign a mount point.
Above the display, you can review the Drive name (such as /dev/dasda), the Geom (which shows the
hard disk’s geometry and consists of three numbers representing the number of cylinders, heads, and
sectors as reported by the hard disk), and the Model of the hard drive as detected by the installation
program.
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