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Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4*
Intel® Server Board S5000PAL
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Figure 4-9. Disk Partitioning Setup
Warning: If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning Setup phase of the installation saying
something similar to “The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it
must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.” you may not have a partition table
on that drive or the partition table on the drive may not be recognizable by the partitioning
software used in the installation program. Users who have used programs such as EZ-BIOS have
experienced similar problems, causing data to be lost (assuming the data was not backed up before
the installation began). No matter what type of installation you are performing, backups of the
existing data on your systems should always be made.
Automatic Partitioning
Automatic partitioning allows you to have some control concerning what data is removed (if any) from
your system. Your options are:
• Remove all Linux partitions on this system — select this option to remove only Linux partitions
(partitions created from a previous Linux installation). This does not remove other partitions you
may have on your hard drive(s) (such as VFAT or FAT32 partitions).
• Remove all partitions on this system — select this option to remove all partitions on your hard
drive(s) (this includes partitions created by other operating systems such as Windows VFAT or NTFS
partitions).