On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote:
> it's the 1.4 rc2 686 LiveCD
>
> just downloaded the gentoo 1.4rc2 LiveCD.
> the installation guide didn't mention how to create a xfs root
> partition. what should I do to use xfs?

Create a linux partition, and format for xfs.

> btw, the step of using dd to clean the first 1k of partition could be
> dangerous, isn't it? a wrong output device will render your harddisk
> unbootable, if not daming the FAT of an existing data partition.... :)

No more dangerous than any other command you run as root.  Why would you
need to use dd for this anyway??

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