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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

If you have only one partition and don't want to make any others, 
first make a 2-floppy-disk BL3, then use that to reformat the Win98 
partition after booting from the floppy disks.  Use fdisk (in DOS or 
linux) to determine which partition Win98 is on.  Let's assume you have 
one hard drive.  fdisk /dev/hda (after booting from linux).  m for a menu, 
p to 'print' a list of all the partitions.   If /dev/hda1 is the Win98 
partition (the biggest one) follow instructions to change the partition to 
type ext2 instead of fat16 or fat32 DOS.  You have completed step (1)

mke2fs -c /dev/hda1 - this formats the partition for ext2, while checking 
for bad sectors   (step 2)  Wait until this finishes.

While still running linux from the floppy disks, install-to-hd (I have not 
done this from floppy disk).  I think the floppy disk version is still 
only available for BL3.32.

To mount the linux partition:  from the floppy or loop linux, type
mount /dev/hda1 /hd

Or if you want to install BL3.40 and have an extra partition of at least 
25MB, first make a BL3 'baslin' directory in it and download the loop 
version of BL3.40 to it, then use fdisk and mke2fs on the larger partition 
and install-to-hd.

If you want you can simply delete all the existing partitions, make a 25MB 
/dev/hda1, put DOS and BL3.40 loop onto it, and then use the rest of the 
drive for BL3.40.  Use floppy-disk linux or even a DOS boot disk.

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Ben Sanders wrote:

> 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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