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Thread ID: 17429	2002-04-04 20:58:00	Partition Spare HDD for Linux	Guest (0)	Press F1

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41881	2002-04-04 20:58:00	I have a spare 2gig drive which I deleted all the files off then formatted and ran scandisk on. Do I still need to re/partition it for Linux to install on the disk? The Mandrake 8.2 install can't load on that HDD without a partition and I don't know enough about Linux to see if I can do it within the setup program.	Guest (0)
41882	2002-04-04 23:07:00	Yes you can do it from the setup program, in fact, that is the ONLY way I would ever recommend doing it. Although it is possible to pre-partition, Linux seems to work a lot better and more trouble free if you let it do the partitioning, or you do the partitioning, during installation. G P	Guest (0)
41883	2002-04-04 23:24:00	Yes but how? I'm pushing buttons for africa but still getting 'need partition' I choose Hdb1 which is the drive but I can't do anything with it?	Guest (0)
41884	2002-04-05 05:34:00	Grrr. I said '..back to FDISK and delete the partition.' You didn't do that, did you? That's why you have a /dev/hda1, which the installer is refusing to use because it is a MS type partition. If you had deleted it, Mandrake would have found /dev/hda, and you would be running Linux now. 'hda1' shows that there is a partition. 'hda' is the whole of the drive. Let the installation script decide how to partition the disk. On your second or third installation, you might want to change the way it does it, but it should not be necessary --- 2GB should allow for any waste in the way they do it.	Guest (0)
41885	2002-04-05 05:59:00	Apologies Graham. It wasn't that I ignored your advice it was that I didn't know anything about FDISK, zip, nada, zero. So I just deleted all the files off the drive, formatted it and ran scandisk. But now I know eh.	Guest (0)
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