Installing the Operating System

Partitions

• Boot (minimal size)

• Can either be a primary or logical partition on any hard drive
• Must be within the first 8 GB of the drive
  

• Swap (size should be the same as the amount of physical memory; Linux Swap file system)
• Root (size should be large enough for installing apps with room to spare)
• Home (size should be large enough for storing data with room to spare)

• A normal installation overwrites the MBR (master boot record) to start GRUB/LILO
• GRUB/LILO can be installed in one of the Linux partitions or on a floppy, without affecting the MBR