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Installation

In addition, the first partition should be marked bootable if it is to be the

boot partition. This is not necessary for additional drives that get added to

the system.

In the current example, we need a partition for /boot, a swap partition, a

partition for the root file system, a partition for /home, and a partition for

/var, with an additional partition for other possibilities (like an archives). The

screen would look like the following when these partitions are completed.

Screen 8: cfdisk; Partitioning Complete.

Once the partitioning is complete you still need to Write the partition infor 

mation to the disk. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the write option

and press enter. The program will ask if you are sure you wish to write the

new partition information. This particular tool demands that the word 'yes'

be typed in full. The program is about to wipe out all data currently on this

device so it wants to make very sure this is correct.