Making new partitions

Maintech · 10-06-2004, 11:38 PM

I dual boot with WinXP and Mandrake 10.1 Linux. I have XP on HDA and MDK on HDB. When I installed MDK I cut the 80 gig hard drive in half. I have used XP to format the last half of the 80gig with fat16. I want to install Slackware 10.0 on the last 40gig of HDB. The setup program does not see that 40. I formatted that 40 with fat16 just so maybe Slackware could see it.
My question: Where can I find the info to tell me how to set up that 40 so I can install Slack without causing problems to my MDK or XP. I have done a little partition work with linux but not much. Not enough to be comfortable with it. I have wanted to try Slack for years but now I have my chance if I can figure out how to get it on my drive.

Thanks

Bruce Hill · 10-07-2004, 12:04 AM

When you boot with the Slackware CD1, login as root and issue
"cfdisk /dev/hdb" and change that partiton type to ext3 then
write it and exit and run setup. As a general rule, I format
Windoze drives with Windoze tools; and Linux with Linux tools.

95se · 10-07-2004, 12:14 AM

When you use cfdisk, for the partition type choose "Linux", afterwards use mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdX# (where /dev/hdx# is the partition, ex. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb2). You won't see an option in cfdisk for Ext3 filesystem.

Bruce Hill · 10-07-2004, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 95se
When you use cfdisk, for the partition type choose "Linux", afterwards use mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdX# (where /dev/hdx# is the partition, ex. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb2). You won't see an option in cfdisk for Ext3 filesystem.

Thanks for the correction. I should have said choose Linux type 83
and then when you go through the setup process it will allow you
to format the partitions when you choose the mount points. That
will be much easier for a newbie than using mkfs - IMO.

Maintech · 10-07-2004, 02:55 PM

Thanks! I partitioned the drive and have Slackware installed now. Now the real learning begins. I have to figure out how to get it to recognize my nvidia video card, my Dell monitor, and somehow enable smp for my multi-processor. Sounds like fun. Any suggestions where I can find the docs to do this? I have been looking a little in the man pages. Haven't found anything yet.

Once again, thanks!

Bruce Hill · 10-08-2004, 01:13 AM

Nvidia Linux unified drivers

The Dell probably needs the correct hor and ver sync rates entered
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf which you might can get from Dell, your monitor's
manual, or searching.

Smb is enabled via the kernel. Kwan Lowe has one of the best kernel guides IMO.