On Monday 10 November 2003 09:46, Biswajit Paul wrote: > Now what i need to do is > > a ) Remove all old partions in hard drive. > b) Create new partions. > c) and then file system in the newly created > partion. > > Can u tell me how anaconda does the job ?? > > actually I do not want to use anaconda for > this simple job only .can u suggest me what are > the other ways for doing the job. You could get tomsrtbt -- Linux on a floppy -- and create the partitions with fdisk. I assume the installation program will create the necessary filesystems, Or you could use mke2fs from tomsrtbt. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland