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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,00:21 QUOTE
O.K., my HD is already partitioned, I have RedHat 9 installed. It's an 80 Gb HD, but I want to replace RedHat 9 with little tiny DSL.

Do I still need to creat a new partition for DSL, or can I just format the HD and install. Or just install and DSL will do the formatting for me?
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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,01:53 QUOTE
The install script will do the formatting. You will be prompted for which partition.
Be sure to run the script via the sudo command.  sudo dsl-hdinstall
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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,02:06 QUOTE
But will it also give me the choice to format other partitions in the HD? Or that's something I'll ave to do after installing DSL?

Let's say I have my HD partitioned like this:

/dev/hda1 -- boot (size 400 megs)

/deb/hda2 -- home (size 52.9 Gb)

/deb/hda4 --  root (size 19.0 Gb)

Let's say I install DSL on /dev/hda1, will it stay in that in that partition alone, or will DSL also make use of the other partitions (like RedHat 9 is doing right now?)
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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,05:35 QUOTE
No only one partition. Remember this was designed to be a liveCD and running from ram with toram is the best way. The hard drive install was something that came along later. So, don't expect this to be like RedHat. If you do have a swap partition DSL will use it.
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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,06:10 QUOTE
Do you know an easy way to format those partitions?

I have tomsrtbt, but I don't know which tool in there could help me to  safely format those partitions.
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