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+ <link rel="prev" href="doPartitionDisks.html" title="Suggested Partitioning">
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- <div lang="" class="section" title="Choose the mount points">
+ <div class="section" title="Choose the mount points">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
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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 <span class="application">DrakX</span>
- suggestions, you can change the mount points.
+ computer. If you don't agree with the DrakX suggestions, you can change the
+ mount points yourself.
</p>
- <div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
- <table border="0" summary="Note">
- <tr>
- <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="note.png"></td>
- <th align="left"></th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" valign="top">
-
- <p>If you change anything, make sure you still have a
- <code class="literal">/</code> (root) partition.
- </p>
-
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
-
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Every partition is shown as follows: "Device" ("Capacity", "Mount
- point", "Type").
- </p>
-
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
-
- <p>"Device", is made up of: "hard drive", ["hard drive
- number"(letter)], "partition number" (for example, "sda5").
+ <p>To the left of the drop-down menus is a list of available
+ partitions. For example: <code class="filename">sda</code> is a hard drive - and
+ <code class="filename">5</code> is a <span class="emphasis"><em>partition number</em></span>,
+ followed by the<span class="emphasis"><em> (capacity, mount point, filesystem
+ type)</em></span> of the partition.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <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.
+ <p>If you have several partitions, you can choose various different
+ <span class="emphasis"><em>mount points</em></span> from the drop down menu, such as
+ <code class="filename">/</code>, <code class="filename">/home</code> and
+ <code class="filename">/var</code>. You can even make your own mount points, for
+ instance <code class="filename">/video</code> for a partition where you want to
+ store your films, or perhaps <code class="filename">/Data</code> for all your
+ data files.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>For partitions you don't need to have access to, you can leave the
- mount point field blank.
+ <p>For any partitions that you don't need to make use of, you can
+ leave the mount point field blank.
</p>
</li>
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<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
- <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 its type
- and size.
+ <p>If you make any changes here, ensure you still have a
+ <code class="filename">/</code> (root) partition.
+ </p>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Tip">
+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Tip]" src="tip.png"></td>
+ <th align="left"></th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="left" valign="top">
+
+ <p>If you are not sure what to choose, click
+ <span class="emphasis"><em>Previous</em></span> to go back and then tick <span class="emphasis"><em>Custom
+ disk partitioning</em></span>, where you can click on a partition to see
+ its type and size.
</p>
</td>
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<p>If you are sure the mount points are correct, click on
- <span class="guibutton">Next</span>, and choose whether you only want to format the
- partition(s) DrakX suggests, or more.
+ <span class="emphasis"><em>Next</em></span>, and choose whether you only want to format the
+ partition suggested by DrakX, or more.
</p>
</div>