If you are a brand new customer, please review our getting started guide for information on assigning a Linode to a datacenter. Once your Linode has a home, you will see the Linode Dashboard. Click the "Distro Wizard" link to deploy a Linux distribution to your Linode:
Your choice in a Linux distribution should be based on what you are most comfortable with. Beginners may wish to start with Ubuntu, and Debian is another popular distribution. You can see a breakdown of distribution use on our About Us page in the "Interesting Statistics" box.
Select from the list of available distributions, decide how much disk space you want to assign to this Linode, enter a root password (don't forget this, you'll need it later), and click "Create Profile" to continue:
You don't have to assign all your available disk space to your Linode; you may wish to reserve space to allow for cloning a disk image or an entire configuration profile later. We strongly recommend sticking with the default swap image size, as allowing your Linode to go heavily into swap can seriously degrade performance in an environment where disk IO is shared among many virtual machines.
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Submitted by Stan Schwertly on Thursday, August 19 2010 at 11:31:21 GMT
We've recently upgraded our distro wizard. You can find the minimum required disk size under the "Deployment Disk Size" box.
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