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[Kunle 'bona <debona2 AT yahoo.com>]

i don't know if this message is coming too late, after
all you might already have installed bl3 but i was
thinking it might be a "waste" of space to install bl3
on the whole partition unless you plan to upgrade
(install slackware packages) i don't think you need
more than 100mb under normal circumstances (and that's
stretching it). there are some disk partitioning tools
you can get; i hear (knoppix has something like
that)which would allow you to resize your main
partition  without you losing data (as always you are
advised to back up your data) AND create an ext2
partition with the space you free


--- Ben Sanders <BSand003 AT ucr.edu> 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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