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[Ben Sanders <BSand003 AT ucr.edu>]

Hello,

I am trying to install 'basic linux 3' and I have run into the
installer program ('install-to-hd') that was included with the
distro. It gives me 3 steps that I need to do before I can run
the installer program. These are:

(1) Prepare a Linux partition.
(2) use mke2fs to put a filesystem on that partition
(3) mount the partition on the /hd

I have questions about each step:

(1) Prepare a Linux partition.
I have a laptop with windows 98 on one big partition, and I
think there are some other smaller partitions which take care
of some of the laptop-specific things. I would like to wipe
windows 98 so that I can just put 'basic linux' on the main
partition. For step (1), is there anything I need to do? The
hard drive already has a big partition where I would like to
put linux, I just want to overwrite windows.

(2) use mke2fs to put a filesystem on that partition
I don't know where to start with this one. I tried looking at
the man pages, but I don't know the first thing about the
terminology in them. Are there any step by step tutorials out
there?

(3) mount the partition on the /hd
Again, I don't know where to start. How does someone mount a
partition on something and what's '/hd' ?

This is my first install where I have had to use the mke2fs
tool (and possibly the fdisk tool) so I don't know what to do
with these. Any help would be great.

thanks in advance,
Ben

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