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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!fenris!jwinstea
- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: UP and RUNNING
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.164754.13551@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Keywords: help needed !
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <BtyKMI.Aus@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:47:54 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- When you set your distribution to 'usa', you are cutting out a large
- section of the Linux community, including Linus Torvalds, the author.
-
- In article <BtyKMI.Aus@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang) writes:
- > I have a Seagate 107 M (or 102 M, depend on what is 1M) hardrive. I
- >followed the installation guide, but I found there is no "psdisk" which is
- >supposed to be a safe partition utility. I do find one "fdisk" but have
- >to detail documentation. I used DOS partition program "fdisk" to partition
- >my hard drive as one 15M primary DOS partition, one 63M extended DOS.
- >I left about 24M preparing for 18M + 6M for linux and linux swap. I don't
- >know this will work or not. Should I partition hard drive using LINUX
- >"psdisk" or "fdisk", or using DOS first, and leave some space for LINUX.
- >BTW, I am using LINUX 0.97 version on tsx-11.mit.edu.
-
- pfdisk (not psdisk) is no longer on the root disk - it was replaced by
- the better fdisk from Owen LeBlanc which is also used on the MCC
- Interim releases. This was called 'efdisk' on a previous release, but
- I have since moved it over to 'fdisk' after adding a quick hack to get
- more use out of it. :) Just a historical note of no consequence.
-
- Now, the real answers to your problems - the excellent documentation
- to fdisk is on the root disk you downloaded. Log in as 'intro', and
- type fdisk at the prompt - it explains how to use fdisk, and the
- basics of what partitions are, etc.
-
- The best thing to do would be to use the DOS fdisk to create your DOS
- partitions, leaving room for Linux partitions, and then create the
- Linux partitions using Linux. Works for me every time.
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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