[SATLUG] re: SATLUG partition question

[Daniel Villarreal]

Augie,

You need to verify the existence of the 20 GB partition
# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Then you may need to partition it...
man mkfs

SEE ALSO
       fs(5),  badblocks(8),  fsck(8),  mkdosfs(8),  mke2fs(8),   mkfs.bfs(8),
       mkfs.ext2(8), mkfs.ext3(8), mkfs.minix(8), mkfs.msdos(8), mkfs.vfat(8),
       mkfs.xfs(8), mkfs.xiafs(8)

regards,
Daniel Villarreal

> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:44:03 -0700
> From: augie <agrayfox at gmail.com>
> Subject: [SATLUG] Partition question
...
> I recently installed CentOS 405 on a boxen that I'm setting up as a file 
> server, and during the partitioning segment I created a 20 gig partition as 
> free space but it doesn't show up anywhere. I'm hoping to format it as vfat 
> so that I can dd from another hd with xp installed on that, so that I
> can have a dual boot. Is this possible or should I dd to a blank hd
> and then install linux? Will xp even work from this setup?
> TIA
> -- 
> augie
> agrayfox at gmail dot com