Your latest message doesn't really ask any questions, but perhaps I can help
a bit by discussing some of the things you say you find yourself unable to do.
First, to create an ext2 filesystem by hand, you follow these general steps:
1. Boot Linux somehow, such as from a floppy bootdisk.
2. Use fdisk to create a Linux partition on your hard disk.
3. use mke2fs (or it may be mkfs.ext2 on your distribution) to create a
filesystem on the partition.
Second, to add a user, your safest bet is to run (as root) the program
"adduser". You *can* add a user by hand, by editing the /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow file manually, but it's easy to make a mistake.
Third, to add a password to root, you run the command "passwd", typing in
the new password twice when prompted.
Fourth, you get the command-line prompt "[root@(none)]#" because
1. you are logged in as root
2. you haven't given the computer a hostname. To give it one, put the name
you want in the file /etc/HOSTNAME .
If you've already tried some of these suggestions and failed ... well,
you'll have to tell us what went wrong to get more focused advice than this.
At 10:46 PM 6/20/99 -0400, J. Hanover wrote:
>I tried deleting the partitions (hdc6 and hdc7) but I still received all the
>same errors listed below. I don't understand how to create an ext2
>filestsyem. I used my boot disk and did try to get into Linux: I received a
>promt that looked like: [root@(none)]#
>I tried to add a user name and login as a root directory, but neither
>worked. I've never created a root password either.
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