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>&#13; Now that you are partitioning and choosing the mount point of your directories, select <B
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your partitions are created, the installation program will ask you to choose partitions to format. Choose the partitions you want
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On the next screen you will see the LILO Configuration where you have the choice to install LILO boot record on:
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