Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
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1.5.4. Custom Installations
The custom installation allows you the most flexibility during your installation. The workstation and
server installations automatically go through the installation process for you and omit certain steps.
During a custom installation, you have complete control over the packages that will be installed on
your system.
The recommended disk space requirements for a custom installation are as follows:
Custom (minimum): 400 MB
Custom (choosing everything): 4.5 GB
1.5.4.1. What a Custom Installation Will Do
As you might guess from the name, a custom installation puts the emphasis on flexibility. You have
complete control over which packages will be installed on your system.
If you choose automatic partitioning, a custom 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).
1.5.5. Upgrading Your System
Upgrading Red Hat Linux 6.2 (or greater) will not delete any existing data. The installation program
updates the modular kernel and all currently installed software packages. See Chapter 3 and Appendix
A for those instructions.






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