2. Installation Overview

In This Chapter

More Information 27

Planning the Installation 28

Setting Up the Hard Disk 34

LVM: Logical Volume Manager 42

The Installation Process 43

Downloading and Burning a CD/DVD 44

Using BitTorrent 47

Gathering Information About the System 48

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Choose the best distribution and version to meet your needs

• Download the ISO image for the install DVD or the Live CD

• Burn the CD/DVD ISO images to physical media

• Use a live session to test hardware and check system requirements

• List considerations of disk partitioning

• Describe advantages and disadvantages of software RAID and LVM partitioning schemes

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