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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 4:54 pm    Post subject: Comand line install problems Reply with quote

Right,
Putting gentoo on a spare hdd on my main pc. its on hdb1. made partitions in fdisk. but when I type mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1p3(or ..'/hdb1', '.../hdbp3', '.../hdb3' or anything else i can think of) it says it doesnt exist. checked in fdisk, says it does :/. any ideas?

have to do it in comand line due to x not working with my ati card
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If any partition/filesystem on the disk is mounted when you modify it with fdisk, you'll need to reboot before the new table is used/recognised.

Anyway, what does `ls /dev/hd*` return?
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, ive restarted. It returns
/dev/hdb /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc/

I'm more confused now lol.

Got a boot partition, swap, and root set up but not sure which is which now
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, from looking about again i fubared my fdisk by doing it on hdb1 instead of hdb. Just ran fdisk again and get better outputs, hdb1 2 and 3 instead of hdb1p3.
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I've had that happen several times before =P

Did that fix your problem?

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