Re: first time installing, need help with partitioning and install

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From: vpotus
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 00:00

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In article <8gsbuf$dcr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, molina@go2mall.com wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I'm a newbie and I have a similar problem.  I have a jaz 2 gig drive
> installed on the system already (it worked previously) but now I can't
> mount the drive so I can read it's contents.
> 
> In the fstab it shows as:
> /dev/sda4 /jaz ext2 noauto 0 0

only use this if you only want to mount ext2 filesystems only, never a fat jazz disk.
I use the first p[artition for ext2 filesystems so that dev/sdk1 is ext2, and sdk4 is fat when a
dos disk is inserted. or read the ,man fstab file for adding filesystems.

> How do I format this jaz disk? I'd like to be able to copy the contents
> of the current settings on the hard drive as I'd like to convert the
> machine to win95 then reinstall linux?  I don't mind deleting any
> existing data.
> 
> thanks in advance.
>

mkfs,  it will let you format a valid partition.

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