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Chapter 2. Practical planning
You must do some practical planning before starting a FLEX-ES installation. We can divide
the planning into several areas:
General topics that are relevant to any FLEX-ES installation:
– Your goal: A production or sandbox system?
– The Linux distribution to be used
– Newer hardware and Linux support
– Disk space needed
– Linux file system layout
– Mode of disk usage for emulated S/390 disk volumes
– Network connections
Topics that are especially relevant to ThinkPad installations:
– Device planning (Ultrabay™ usage)
– Choices for disk layouts
– Dual boot, alternate boot ...