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Article #57866Re: partitioning to install Linux???
From: David Begley
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:00
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On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 majamoo@magna.com.au wrote: > I'm hoping to get some help. Can anyone tell me how I tag the > partitions on my hard drive so that I can install Linux? A sure-fire method I've been using so far (on both 1Gb and 4Gb drives) has been to use either DOS or OS/2's "FDISK" utility (generally the latter) to create the necessary partitions as though they were DOS partitions. Then, during the initial Linux install, run its "fdisk" to change some types to 82 and 83 as required. Reboot. Finally, run the Linux install to completion using the newly created "Linux" partitions (don't forget to mkswap/mkfs as appropriate - usually prompted by menus, anyway). Cheers.. dave
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,19e24c7cbab7f8e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: David Begley <dbegley@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> Subject: Re: partitioning to install Linux??? Date: 1996/08/18 Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960818082938.3062A-100000@guinevere> X-Deja-AN: 175456253 references: <4v4jfu$2si@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> x-sender: dbegley@guinevere content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: University of Western Sydney mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: David J N Begley <d.begley@nepean.uws.edu.au> newsgroups: aus.computers.linux