Re: Formatting a hard drive

2000-05-29 Thread Linux Rocks!
mke2fs so... lets say i want to wipe out my windows partition, format it for linux, and it live as /dev/hda1, i would: mke2fs /dev/hda1 Jamie On Mon, 29 May 2000, Blade wrote: > How do I format my harddrive in Linux? > > Ron >

Re: VMware & win4linux?

2000-05-29 Thread Ralph Zeller
I think VMware has a free trial, so you could try that. If you're running programs that will only work with direct access to hardware, then don't use either. Otherwise, for programs like MS-Office and programs that don't have a lot of "vxd's" I'd choose win4lin. On a fast enough machine, maybe

Re: Formatting a hard drive

2000-05-29 Thread Garl R. Grigsby
Ron, is mke2fs what you are looking for? This will create a ext2 file system. Garl Blade wrote: > How do I format my harddrive in Linux? > > Ron

Formatting a hard drive

2000-05-29 Thread Blade
How do I format my harddrive in Linux? Ron

Re: VMware & win4linux?

2000-05-29 Thread Stephen A. Brenner
I'm interested in trying one of these and weening myself away from Microsoft. Which one would people recommend? Thanks, Steve