Installing RHEL 5 Linux RedHat Enterprise Edition

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System and Hardware Requirements

Criteria	Requirements
Operating System	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5 with the latest patches and upgrades
CPU Type	Pentium 4 or higher; 2 GHz or higher
Memory/RAM	1 GB minimum, up to the system limit
Hard Disk	4 GB minimum
Other	To run the Directory Server using port numbers less than 1024, such as the default port 389, you must setup and start the Directory Server as root, but it is not necessary to run the Directory Server as root.

Suggested partition schemes for typical hard disks

Partition Mount Point	Partition Type	Partition Size
		12 GB disk	+18 GB or larger disk
/	ext3	9 GB	12 GB
swap	swap	1 x memory or at least 512 MB	2 x memory or at least 1 GB
/var	ext3	512 MB	4 GB
/usr/vice/cache	ext3	512 MB	2 GB
/tmp	ext3	512 MB	4 GB
/scswork	ext3	omit	1 GB
/scratch (or extra /tmp space)	ext3	omit	remainder