cfdisk make freeze / hang

Forum: HD Install
Topic: cfdisk make freeze / hang
started by: ahnug

Posted by ahnug on Oct. 03 2005,04:49

Hi,
I tried create partition using CFDISK with root access.
When finish and try to WRITE, and asking answer YES, DSL become freeze and only hard reset the PC can do.

Actually I want install DSL on my HDD on Pent III 650 MHz.

I also create partiion using QTPARTED on KNOPPIIX but DSL alos can't mount the partition.

help me please!

Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 05 2005,16:43

Partition editing tools are used to create/resize/delete partitions.

Before you can mount a newly created partition, you need to format it with a filesystem like FAT (msdos/Win95/98/ME), NTFS (WinNT/2000/XP), EXT2 (Linux), or Linux Swap (Linux).

For example, to format partition number 3 on your primary IDE master drive as a EXT2 partition, you would set the partition type to "linux" and then reboot into DSL and type:

sudo su
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda3

or for a swap partition:

sudo su
mkswap /dev/hda3