hda1 listed twice on hardrive when trying to install?

[happy cricket]

Hi there - now putting Puppy on another computer, but loaded live CD, and when I started the universal installer, it lists hda1 two times - ones as ext3 and once as SFAT. Clicking on either does nothing..... any thoughts?

[Bruce B]

What filesystem do you actually have on hda1?

[happy cricket]

What filesystem do you actually have on hda1?

It should be ext3. The operating system previously on this machine was Damned Small.

[Bruce B]

If there are no files on it you need to keep, you could boot with the puppy pfix=ram option and verify the filesystem ID is 83, you can use cfdisk for this.

Then format it as an ext2, which is Puppy's default filesystem.

[happy cricket]

If there are no files on it you need to keep, you could boot with the puppy pfix=ram option and verify the filesystem ID is 83, you can use cfdisk for this.

Then format it as an ext2, which is Puppy's default filesystem.

Thank you! I'll try that.

[muggins]

also a lot of people use either fdisk/cfdisk/gparted to change the partition ID, thinking that's it but, as BB says, they also need to format the partition.

mke2fs /dev/hda1 (to format partition 1 as ext2)
mke2fs -j /dev/hda2 (to format partition 2 as ext3)
mkswap /dev/hda3 (to format partition 3 as swap)

[happy cricket]

Thank you.