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Check each partitions, in order, and make sure that it matches what you intended to enter. When you’re satisfied, use the Tab key to select the OK button and then press Enter.

The Save Changes dialog box appears.

If you’re satisfied with the partitions that you have created. Select Yes.

Until you select the Yes button, you have not actually written any partitions to disk. You do have the option to select the No Button, which takes you to Step 9. If you Select Cancel, you return  to the Desk Druid dialog box with all of your partitions still in place.

If you have an older system with less than 32MB of memory, then you see the Low Memory dialog box. This dialog box tells you that the Red Hat installation process will format and activate the swap partition immediately. Select Yes to continue.

In the Choose Partitions to Format dialog box, choose either to format or not to format each of your partitions.

The default is to format. If this is your first time installation or you want to start with a completely fresh one, then tab down to the Ok button and press Enter.

If you’re are installing Linux and you want to save the information stored on such partitions such as/home or /usr/local, then Tab down to those menu items and press the Space bar to deselect the asterisks. From there tab to Ok and press Enter.

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The Linux file system is like a tree turned upside down, as shown in the following figure. The top of the upside-down tree is represented by a /(slash) and is called the root. A series of limbs, branches, and leaves are below the root. The limbs are called mount points, the smaller branches are your directories and the leaves are your files.  Each mount points is a disk partition, and the disk partition is mounted on the directory of the limb above it. When the disk partition  is mounted on the directory branch, it turns that branch into another limb, allowing for even more branches to be positioned and attached below the mount point.

Normally, you need at least a root partition in your directory structure( the upside-down tree) and a swap space ( particularly if you have a system with under 16mb of RAM). Therefore, at a minimum, you should set up two types of disk space: a Linux file system starting at the root and a swap space. Theoretically; you don’t have to set up swap space, and some people choose not to. If you do, however you can run more programs than you have real memory you have on your system.

As mentioned, at a minimum, setting up a separation partition for your user files( usually called the home directory) is better and setting up multiple disks partitions  for your Linux files is even better still. This setup makes backing up your files and updating your system to new versions of Linux much easier. The downside is that you have to leave empty space in each partition for new files, and these empty spaces add up. A reasonable analogy is using a filling cabinet to store your personal files versus a single box.

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