Well, I didn't get too far there...

Preparing the hard drive went okay.  However, when I attempted to use cfdisk to partition the drive, I couldn't alter the size of the partitions.  'Units' just cycled round heads and cylinders and something.  Here's what I've got:
Disc 1     Boot, NC     Primary     Linux ext 2        41.13mb
Disc 2                       Primary     Linux swap      271.44mb
Disc 3                      Primary      Linux ext 3    79711.19mb
An 80gb hard drive obviously.  Another thing I couldn't change is the type on Disc 1.  I wanted ext 3 but it wouldn't take.
I'm trying to install Arch 0.7, by the way.
Some beginners help here would be appreciated.  The answer is probably under my nose but I couldn't see it.

I always find, that the Gparted LiveCD is the easiest way to partition. It has a GUI and can resize/format/create partitions easily without having to juggle with the number of cyclinders and all that.
http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
You can just partitioin before  and then set the mountpoints during installation.
Last edited by lenni (2007-11-10 14:23:11)

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