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JohnD

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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,04:40

I installed DSL Linux to my IBM Thinkpad without any problems, however that was the only program on the disk.

I have a Dell Pentium III 600 Mhz machine with a 40 gig HD that I was running Windows 98 on. I decided to set up DSL Linux on that machine also, but in this case would also run Windows 98.

I Fdisk'd the hard drive and created two partitions each partion was 50% oFf the total. Drive C: 20 Gigs and Drive D: almost 20 Gigs.

I reinstalled Windows 98 on drive C: Everything fine there.
Used the boot floppy with DSL in the CD drive, and tried cfdisk in terminal mode (cfdisk/dev/hda2) but it didn't take. I hadn't formatted drive D: figuring that cfdisk would format that partition for Linux. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong here?

mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,04:51

cfdisk is equivalent to fdisk. It will set up your partition table, but it does not format. You will need to use mke2fs to format the DSL partition.

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JohnD

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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,12:09

Thanks Mike,

I'll doublecheck the syntax, I'm assuming that mke2fs/dev/hda2 would be the complete command. Thanks again.

John:D

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,17:54

Also, if you create a Linux Swap partition (example: /dev/hda3) type, you will also need to format this partition:

mkswap /dev/hda3

and then reboot and it will be automatically detected and used.

JohnD

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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,20:01

OK, Thanks very much.

I like DSL linux very much. I'm also thinking, since this will be on a 10 gig hd, that I could add more to it such as Open Office, and other possible Linux programs. Will DSL Linux be able to support those? I think the program should, just want to be sure.

John :;):

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