Re: going insane trying to install DSL on vaio drive

harry palmer wrote:

1 Formatted the vaio 4g using format under win2k it's now running fat32 in
a new windows partition.

Far better to do that from the DSL installer nad I suggest you use a Linux
native file system as ext2 or ext3, and you seem to be doing slicing and
formation anyhow afterwards.


Ok so from my notes I think I have to type
sudo cfdisk /mnt/hdb1

You want "sudo cfdisk /mnt/hdb" as cfdisk is a program to slice your hard
drive into partitions. As you give a slice instead of a hard drive, cfdisk
won't work and gives you an error.


I am puzzled by this whole thing??? from the mount command it seems to be
telling me that /mnt/hdb1 is rw so what am I doing wrong?? am I missing a
step?

Talking about birds and fishes, two completely different things.





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//Aho
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