Q3 filesystem?Originally Posted by mimes
I've never seen that before, but knoppix needs ext3 or resisefs
Hi, I have never partitioned a harddrive before, and when it was time to use QT Partitioning thingy, I already had 4 partitions on the harddrive. The main one that contains my old windows 98 system, had like 9GB on it. I reformatted it to a Q3 linux filesystem. I used the other 2GB one for my linux swap, and I also have another partition that has a very few GB on it and one that is empty. They are lined up as follows:
-The non used "free", few GB's one
-The main Linux one
-The Swap
-The empty, useless, "free" partition
I saved the changes, and tried to continue the installation for Knoppix, but it once again said i needed to partition the HD. Then i used the IGNORE_CHECK=1 thing to skip the hd thing. I tried to start the installation, but it ended up giving me a printer error thing in a big standalone window. I said next, then it closed the installation. Please help!! I am an extreme newbie.
Q3 filesystem?Originally Posted by mimes
I've never seen that before, but knoppix needs ext3 or resisefs
your swap is probably too big. If i remember correctly, it should be about 2x your RAM, up to about 500MB.
It would be best if you posted specific info about your partition table. You can do this rather easily w/ an app called fdisk. Open a terminal, become root and issue:Originally Posted by mimes
Or it is possible that your drive is /dev/hdb. Copy and paste the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda please.Code:fdisk -l /dev/hda
Try to be specific and post actual errors (copy & paste) or it is very difficult to help you learn how to partition a drive. Oh and BTW - forget qtparted and use a real partitioing tool like fdisk or cfdisk which is very easy to use.
Alright, I'm sorry for being so vague before. When I type "cfdisk" in superuser mode, I get the error:
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition begins after end-of-disk.
Press any key to exit cfdisk
When I type "cfdisk" in a regular shell, it gives me the error:
FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
When I type the command df, to find more about my filesystems, I get:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 3471 1109 2362 32% /
/dev/scd0 716308 716308 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/cloop 1943588 1943588 0 100% /KNOPPIX
/ramdisk 145928 2244 143684 2% /ramdisk
AND when I try to use QTParted to delete and manage partitions, the program opens, but I can only do a few limited things.
Any help would be really appreciated, I am a Linux newbie who wishes to help others someday.
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