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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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