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  • From: Mr Christopher Rose <mrchrisrose AT yahoo.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] install troubles----what the problem is....
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:41:10 -0700 (PDT)


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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