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         <p>Here you see the Linux partitions that have been found on your computer. If you don't agree with the suggestions of <span class="application">DrakX</span>, you can change the mount points. 
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                     <p>If you change anything, make sure you still have at least ONE <code class="literal">/</code> partition 
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                  <p>Every partition is shown
                        as follows: "Device" ("Capacity", "Mount point", "Type").
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                  <p>"Device", is made up of: "hard drive", "hard drive number", "partition number" (for example, "sda5"). </p>
                    
                    
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                        as follows: "Device", "Capacity", "Mount point", "Type".
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                  <p>If you have many partitions, you can choose many different mount points from the drop down menu, such as <code class="literal">/</code>, <code class="literal">/home</code> and <code class="literal">/var</code>. You can even make your own mount points, for instance <code class="literal">/video</code> for a partition where you want to store your films, or <code class="literal">/cauldron-home</code> for the <code class="literal">/home</code> partition of a cauldron install.
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                  <p>For partitions you don't need to have access to, you can leave the mount point field blank.</p>
                    
                    
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                     <p>Choose <span class="guibutton">Previous</span> if you are not sure what to choose, and then tick <span class="guilabel">Custom disk partitioning</span>. In the screen that follows, you can click on a partition to see it's type and size.
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         <p>You are sure the mount points are correct? Now click on <span class="guibutton">Next</span>, and choose whether you only want to format the partition(s) DrakX suggests, or more.
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