On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote:

> cfdisk doesn't seem to have a filesystem type that's specifically
> "ext2". it does have
>       05 extended (for logical partitions, apparently)
>       85 linux extended (is this it?)
>       0f win95 ext'd (just say no)

You want type 83, it is called "Linux".

> when i try selecing 85, it never changes the partition type.
> same thing in fdisk, as well.

Are you "W"riting the changes to disk.

> but the drive i configured from the debian 2.1 cd has filesystem
> partitions type "Linux ext2". how do i get that?

type 83


later,

        Bruce

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