[BL] install troubles----what the problem is....
3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org
3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org
Tue Oct 19 02:22:45 EDT 2004
Mr Christopher Rose wrote:
>
> I want to thoroughly delete the vfat filesystem
> and put a ext2 filesystem onto it.
I recommend you make more than one partition (assuming
your HD is big enough). This will give you greater
flexibility. Also, you may need to have a swap
partition (depending on how much RAM is on the system).
How big is the HD? How much RAM do you have?
> I have tried running fdisk /dev/hda and I keep
> trying to set up the partition.
Trying? Is something going wrong? Do you see the
partition when you do:
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fdisk -l
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> Then I run mke2fs /dev/hda
/dev/hda refers to the whole HD, not a partition.
> It tells me that I setting up the whole device and not
> just a partition.
The first primary partition on that HD is called /dev/hda1
The second primary partition is called /dev/hda2
There are four primary partitions on each HD. I recommend
you create primary partitions.
Cheers,
Steven
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