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[Mr Christopher Rose <mrchrisrose AT yahoo.com>]

I forgot to mention that my HD is only about 523MB. My
Laptop is an older Toshiba. It was running win 3.1
when I bought for $8 at a thrift shop.

--- 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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:
> --------
> fdisk -l
> --------
> 
> > 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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