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Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started

1.5.2.1. What a Workstation Installation Will Do

If you choose automatic partitioning, a workstation installation will create the following partitions:

The size of the swap partition is determined by the amount of RAM in your system and the amount

of space available on your hard drive. For example, if you have 128 MB of RAM then the swap

partition created can be 128 MB   256 MB (twice your RAM), depending on how much disk space

is available.

A 100 MB partition mounted as

/boot

in which the Linux kernel and related files reside.

A root partition mounted as

/

in which all other files are stored (the exact size of this partition is

dependent on your available disk space).

1.5.3. Server Installations

A server installation is most appropriate for you if you would like your system to function as a Linux 

based server, and you do not want to heavily customize your system configuration.

Below are the minimum recommended disk space requirements for a server installation where only

one language (such as English) will be installed.

Server (minimum, no graphical interface): 1.3 GB

Server (choosing everything, no graphical interface): 1.4 GB

Server (choosing everything, including a graphical interface): 2.1 GB

If you plan to choose all group packages, as well as select additional individual packages, you may

want to allow yourself 2.3 GB or more of disk space.

During the server installation, the X Window System is not configured and no GUI will be loaded when

the system boots, unless you choose to install the appropriate packages during package selection.

1.5.3.1. What a Server Installation Will Do

The size of the swap partition is determined by the amount of RAM in your system and the amount

of space available on your hard drive. For example, if you have 128 MB of RAM then the swap

partition created can be 128 MB   256 MB (twice your RAM), depending on how much disk space

is available.

A 384 MB root partition mounted as

/

.

A partition mounted as

/usr

(the exact size of this partition is dependent on your available disk

space).

A partition mounted as

/home

(the exact size of this partition is dependent on your available disk

space).

A 256 MB partition mounted as

/var

.

A 100 MB partition mounted as

/boot

in which the Linux kernel and related files are kept.

This disk partitioning scheme results in a reasonably flexible file system configuration for most server

tasks.