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<li>An '''Installation Options''' dialog box should appear. Select "'''I want to review/modify my disk partitions before continuing'''" and make certain that the '''Partition Scheme''' is set to '''LVM'''. Click the Continue button.</li>
<li>A '''Manual Partitioning''' screen should appear. This is the screen where you can customize your partitioning information.</li>
<li>Ignore the "'''New Fedora 19 Installation'''" section. Instead, Click the "'''Fedora Linux 19 for X86_64'''" to expand the section. Delete each partition in that section by clicking on each partition (eg. /, /home. swap), and click the minus button "-" on the bottom left-hand-side to delete and verify that you want to delete those partitions.</li> <li>When all the partitions are removed, click on the plus sign on the bottom left-hand-side to create your partitions.On your hard drive you will need to create at least the following partitions. These may be primary partitions or logical drives. If you have more space than 160GB available - you can add the extra space in equal parts to '''/home''' and '''/var/lib/libvirt/images'''</li>
<ul><li>'''50GB''' for '''/''' (i.e. "root")</li>
<li>'''500 MB''' for '''/boot'''</li>
<li>'''40GB''' for '''/home'''</li>
<li>'''8GB''' for '''swap''' (Note: "swap" must be selected from the drop down menu)</li>
<li>'''100GB''' for '''/var/lib/libvirt/images'''</li></ul>
{{Admon/important|Careful with /var/lib/libvirt/images pathname spelling and size|You must take time to correctly spell the pathname for the '''/var/lib/libvirt/images''' directory. This pathanme is used later to store the virtual machine images from lab2 installs. If you do not take time to properly spell this directory name, you will have to make corrections before proceeding to lab2! |
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<li>Record briefly in your lab logbook what partitions you created of what size and what device names were assigned to them (/dev/sda1, etc.).</li>
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