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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.15in">This option is used
to control the partitioning of the target systems' hard disk drives.</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western">'partitioning' => {</P>
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<P CLASS="headings-special-western">Descriptions:</P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in">set to <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1</FONT>
if all the existing partitions on <B>ALL</B> disks are to be
cleared and replaced by new ones (internal defaults or the ones
defined by <A HREF="section4-24.html#partitions"><B><I>'partitions'</I></B></A>
are to be used). Set to <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">0</FONT>
if the disks are to be left untouched or, you are going to use
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'clear'</FONT> instead.</P>
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<P CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'clear'</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in">if present, this is a
list of the disks that are to have their partitions cleared. If
your system has more than one disk drive, any drive(s) you do not
list are left untouched.
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">eg. <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'clear'
=> [ 'hda', 'hdc' ],</FONT> clears the partitions on <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">hda</FONT>
and <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">hdc</FONT>, but leaves <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">hdb</FONT>
untouched. The partitions for <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">hdb</FONT>
will have to be defined using the<SPAN STYLE="background: transparent"><FONT COLOR="#000080">
</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="section4-17.html#manualFstab"><B><I><SPAN STYLE="background: transparent"><FONT COLOR="#000080">'manualFstab'</FONT></SPAN>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in">set to <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1</FONT>
if disk partitions are to be defined by the option <A HREF="section4-24.html#partitions"><B><I>'partitions'</I></B></A>,
set to <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">0</FONT> if the installer
is to leave the existing partitioning untouched. If you have
cleared all or, one or more drive partitions, then you need to set
this option to the value one (<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1</FONT>)
and, you have to define the new partition layout for the cleared
drives using the <A HREF="section4-24.html#partitions"><B><I>'partitions'</I></B></A>
option.</P>
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<P CLASS="western">If you want to re-use the existing partitions,
then set <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">clearall</FONT> and
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">auto_allocate</FONT> to their zero
(<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">0</FONT>) value AND specify all
the mounting information in the <A HREF="section4-17.html#manualFstab"><B><I>'manualFstab'</I></B></A>
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<P CLASS="western">If you want the install program to
auto-allocate the partitions, then set <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">clearall</FONT>
and <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">auto_allocate</FONT> to their
one (<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1</FONT>) value, and remove
the <A HREF="section4-24.html#partitions"><B><I>'partitions' </I></B></A>option.</P>
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<P CLASS="headings-special-western">Related Option Entries:</P>
<P CLASS="western"><A HREF="section4-24.html#partitions"><B><I>partitions</I></B></A>,
<A HREF="section4-17.html#manualFstab"><B><I>manualFstab</I></B></A></P>
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