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If you prefer, and if you are installing the console operating system on a hard
drive with at least 1.8GB of space, you may choose Autopartition. The automatic
partitioning creates a swap partition of 250MB, a /boot partition of 50MB and a
/ partition of 1,500MB.
Note: If you have disks connected via an Emulex Fibre Channel adapter or a
QLogic QLA-2300 Fibre Channel adapter, they may not appear in Disk Druid or
fdisk and are not used by Autopartition. They will be visible during configuration
of the server, when you assign disk space for storage of virtual machine files.
9. The installer asks you if you want to put the boot loader in the master boot
record (MBR) of the boot disk or the boot sector of the first partition of the disk.
In most cases, you should choose the default of installing on the MBR.
However, if you have a Compaq server with Compaq SmartStart utilities, choose
the boot sector of the first partition of the disk. On the Compaq server, the MBR
contains the code to allow starting the SmartStart utilities using the F10 key. If
the F10 key is not pressed, the server will automatically try to boot from the first
partition.
10. In Current Disk Partitions, delete any existing partitions.
11. Choose the disk where you want to install the console operating system. It
should be your first IDE disk (hda), if you have one; otherwise, use your first SCSI
disk (sda).
12. You typically create three partitions for a Linux installation, using the New
option.
•The first partition should have a mount point of /boot, a size of 50MB and a
type of ext3.
• The second partition should have no mount point, a size of twice the memory
assigned to the console operating system and a type of swap. You assign
memory to the console operating system in a later step. The default amount,
128MB, is appropriate for managing up to three or four virtual machines. If you
plan to use that amount of memory for the console operating system, set the
size of the swap file to 256MB.
The default amount of memory reserved for the console operating system —
128MB — is sufficient for managing up to three or four virtual machines.
Increase this to 192MB for eight virtual machines, 272MB for 16 virtual
machines, 384MB for 32 virtual machines or 512MB for more than 32 virtual
machines. For details, see Sizing Memory on the Server on page 249.
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