| 67 | | === Disk Configuration === |
| 68 | | |
| 69 | | Your have 50GB hard drive previously configured for your VM |
| 70 | | - Select '''Manual''' |
| 71 | | - Select the Disk '''SCSI3(0,0,0) (sda) - 12.0 GB ATA VBOX HARDDISK''' and Select '''Yes''' to create new partition table |
| 72 | | - Then select Free Space just below SCSI3(0,0,0) (sda) to create following partitions and mount them as follows. |
| 73 | | - Select '''Create new partition''' |
| 74 | | * Partition size: 512MB ---> Continue |
| 75 | | * Type : Primary |
| 76 | | * Location : Begining |
| 77 | | * Use as : Ext4 |
| 78 | | * Change Mount point : /boot |
| 79 | | * Bootable flag : on |
| 80 | | * Select "Done setting up the partition" |
| 81 | | * |
| 82 | | - Again select FREE SPACE to create a primary partition for Linux SWAP (two times the RAM) SWAP 2GB |
| 83 | | * Partition size:2GB |
| 84 | | * Type : Primary |
| 85 | | * Location : Begining |
| 86 | | * Use as : swap area |
| 87 | | * Select "Done setting up the partition" |
| 88 | | |
| 89 | | - Then '''select Logical Volume Manager''' and press '''Yes'''. |
| 90 | | - Select '''create a Volume Group''' and name as "linux". When asked select '''FREE SPACE device (most probably /dev/sda free #1)''' and select '''yes''' for the confirmation |
| 91 | | - Go to '''create logical volumes''', select '''linux''', type logical volume name as '''root''', size : '''2GB''' |
| 92 | | - Repeat the same Create Logical Volume procedure and make another two volumes as usr and var |
| 93 | | |
| 94 | | * a logical volume name : usr, size : 4GB |
| 95 | | * a logical volume name : var, size : rest of the space |
| 96 | | |
| 97 | | These Logical Volumes can be used as partitions containing file system root(/), /usr and /var. |
| 98 | | |
| 99 | | Now you will have 1 Volume Group and 3 Logical Volumes. |
| 100 | | - Once you finish creating logical volumes select '''finish'''. You will be once again presented with Disk Partition Window. |
| 101 | | |
| 102 | | - [=#point1 Then Select just below the LVM VG linux, LV root - 2.0 GB Linux device-mapper (linear) option and change Use as to '''Ext4''' , Mount point : '''/''' and Done.] |
| 103 | | - Then repeat same for the [#point1 previous step] in usr Volume with following options |
| 104 | | * Use as : Ext4 |
| 105 | | * Mount point : /usr |
| 106 | | * Done |
| 107 | | - Then repeat same for the [#point1 previous step] in var Volume with following options |
| 108 | | * Use as : Ext4 |
| 109 | | * Mount point : /var |
| 110 | | * Done |
| 111 | | |
| 112 | | - Then finish the partitioning and confirm it to write to the disk |
| 113 | | |
| 114 | | Now it might take sometime to install the OS base. |
| 115 | | |
| 116 | | - Then finish the partitioning and confirm it to write to the disk |
| 117 | | |
| 118 | | Now it might take sometime to install the OS base. |
