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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 22 Mount Point: our /Swap partition (leave the Mount Point Blank). Size (Megs): 150 Partition Type: Linux Swap Ok Add Mount Point: /tmp our /tmp directory. Size (Megs): 100 Partition Type: Linux Native Ok Add Mount Point: / our / directory. Size (Megs): 316 Partition Type: Linux Native Ok After the partition of your hard disk have been completed, you must see something like the following information on your screen. Our mount point will look like that: Mount Point /boot /usr /home /chroot /cache /var <Swap> /tmp / Device Sda1 Sda5 Sda6 Sda7 Sda8 Sda9 Sda10 Sda11 Sda12 Requested 5M 1000M 500M 400M 400M 200M 150M 100M 316M Actual 5M 1000M 500M 400M 400M 200M 150M 100M 315M Type Linux Native Linux Native Linux Native Linux Native Linux Native Linux Native Linux Swap Linux Native Linux Native Drive Geom [C/H/S] Total (M) Free (M) Used (M) Used (%) sda [3079/64/32] 3079M 1M 3078M 99% NOTE: We are using a SCSI hard disk because the first two letters of the device is “sd”. Now that you are partitioning and choosing the mount point of your directories, select “Next” to continue. After your partitions are created, the installation program will ask you to choose partitions to format. Choose the partitions you want to initialize, check the (Check for bad blocks during format) box, and press “Next”. This formats the partitions and makes them active so Linux can use them. On the next screen you will see the LILO Configuration where you have the choice to install LILO boot record on: · Master Boot Record (MBR) Or · First Sector of Boot Partition Usually if Linux is the only OS on your machine you must choose “Master Boot Record (MBR)”. After you need to configure your LAN and clock. After you finish configuring the clock, you need to give your system a root password and authentication configuration. For Authentication Configuration don’t forget to select: · Enable MD5 passwords  · Enable Shadow passwords