When this has many applications that can be used to process and the file system partition on the hard drive. Partition changes made after the installation to allow the occurrence of data loss. Therefore, it is necessary to have good planning related to the determination of the structure and the file system will be used. There are many partitions can be created for the Linux operating system. Here are partitions that are commonly used.
– /, Is the main partition (root) on the Linux operating system. A similar role as the C: drive on Windows XP. On every Linux installation is partitioning always be made. The file system used to format this partition is ext4. Minimum size of this partition is 5 GB. Suggested minimum of 8 GB to more freely install other programs.
– / Home, is a partition for user. This partition can contain user data. Data herein include documents, images, audio, video and user application configuration. This is similar to the Documents and Settings folder or Users on Windows. This partition can be one with the root partition (/) or on its own partition. The file system also typically use ext4 partition. Partisini this magnitude can be determined based on the amount of data which is likely to be generated.
– / Boot, a boot partition that contains the application (running) operating system. This partition can not be made. If made will be useful later when installing a multi-boot operating system. The file system is also generally able to use ext4.
– Swaps, is a partition of RAM on Linux systems. This partition can be used as additional RAM (virtual memory). This is useful when the system runs out of RAM (physical). The more the number of applications that run the greater the amount of RAM used. By the time the system runs out of RAM, Linux swap partitions can use this as an additional RAM. In Linux there swapping the term used to denote the process of moving page of RAM memory to swap. The blocks are in memory. The size of this partition at least equal to the amount of RAM available. However, it is suggested that the amount of swap twice the RAM.
The operating system Linux is an operating system that has so many variants. This variant is known as distributions. For beginners sometimes difficult to determine who will use Linux distribution. Here are two sites that can be used as reference elections its Linux distributions.
– Http://distrowatch.com/, at this site will be displayed statistics every linux distro that is sorted from the most. Until the time of this writing the top three in this week’s distro is Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian. In addition there are pages http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all which also featured Linux usage statistics.
Figure 6. Site distrowatch.com as an information center Linux distribution
– Http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/, visitors to this site, who want to determine distributions that suited him, would be guided by questions about the expected Linux requirements. Until now, this book is made of supported languages is still a little bit with the main language is English. There are about 16 questions that will be given. The end result is a recommendation that some Linux distributions may be appropriate.
Figure 7. Site zetgeniestudios.net as a guide determining the site of Linux distributions
Each distro there is turundan of other distributions, such as Ubuntu is derived from Debian and Mint which is a derivative of Ubuntu / Debian. Although different in every distribution still run the same Linux system. Associated with installation methods in general there are some similarities, such as the manufacture of partitions, the user, the keyboard, and timing.
As an illustration, the following are the points Debian operating system installation.
– Configure BIOS to boot from the CD / DVD.
– Selection of installation mode text or graphical (GUI)
– Selection of language, the current location and the type of keyboard
– Network settings and the name of the host (computer)
– Determination of the password for the root user
– Creation of new user
– Determining the appropriate timing current location
– Determination of partition scheme that will be used
– Management of the source of the application package (CD or mirror)
– Selection of applications to be installed
– Installation of the boot loader