recent times this division meant the irremediable and inevitable loss of all
the information that was contained on the hard disk.
At the moment in the installation of the distributions of Linux, it is allowed
to divide the hard disk without losing information, in order to reduce the
size of the Windows partition and create a new one
during the installation of
Linux. In the case of RedHat or Mandrake, there is a possibility of
automatic assignment that will be useful in the case of or knowing how to
manipulate the partitions. For Linux, at least one root native partition must
be created. It should be the desired size and a swapping partition that must
be at least twice the size of the RAM of your equipment, up to a maximum
of 512 MB.
During
this process, care must be taken not to erase the partition where
Windows resides, since in that case ALL the information will be lost
permanently.
❖
System installation: Selection of
the various packages to be
included with the Linux operating system and its subsequent
installation.
Some of these packages are:
❖
Work
station
❖
Server
❖
Graphic environment
❖
Office work station.
❖
Webserver / FTP
❖
KDE station
❖
Play Station
❖
Mail.
❖
Gnome station
❖
Multimedia station
❖
Database
server
❖
Internet station
❖
Firewall Server / Router
❖
DNS / NIS
❖
Scientific
work station
❖
Console tools
❖
Network server
