[Sussex] Getting brave ?, perhaps not.

[Geoff Teale]

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> Should I follow the guide literally and do the fdisk stuff? Or would I be able 
> to skip that and get into it further on ? i.e. as I want to put it onto 
> /dev/hda4 (and yes, even though I was asking about partitions earlier last 
> week, I'm just going to put it all onto one partition - until I know a hell 
> of a lot more about it). My first little snag has been that during the 
> earlier stages, I've got as far as mounting partitions, when I try to - mount 
> /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo - I get "access denied", it will let me do the - mkdir 
> /mnt/gentoo/boot - but again, I get the "access denied" reply when I try the 
> - mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/boot -
> 
> Am I just being really thick ? or am I missing something?
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OK,  you shouldn't need to do the fdisk stuff because that has already
been done by partition magic.  What you do need to do though is
initialise your swap space and /dev/hda4 before you try and use either
of them.

Look through the section of the docs immediately following the fdisk
section and you'll find commands like:

mkswap

.. which initialises a swap partition, and:

mke2fs -j 

... which initialises an ext3 partition.  

If you don't do the latter on /dev/hda4 then you will be unable to mount
it.

- Geoff

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