Partitioning allows you to divide your hard drive into isolated
sections, where each section behaves as its own hard drive. Partitioning
is particularly useful if you run more than one operating system. If you
are not sure how you want your system to be partitioned, read Appendix E for more information.
In this screen, you can choose to perform automatic partitioning, to
partition manually using Disk Druid, or to
partition manually using fdisk (see Figure 3-5).
Automatic partitioning allows you to perform an installation without
having to partition your drive(s) yourself. If you do not feel
comfortable with partitioning your system, it is recommended that you
do not choose to partition manually and instead let
the installation program partition for you.
To partition manually, choose either the Disk
Druid or fdisk (recommended for
experts only) partitioning tool.
