well now that i allready deleted them :( oh well. so the /dev/hda1 wold be rgiht for the main dos partition...i only have 1 partition :P and also instead of spending all that time unzipping i think ima just go with zipslack 
because you can just install the stuff you need like X and such and it still runs on fat32 :P really dont feel like partitioning for some reason :(

10/31/01 11:24:14 PM, "Thomas Mondoshawan Tate" <phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu> wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:42:29PM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote:
>> no the kernel mounted fine and i booted it with loadlin...i think it was
>> one of 2 things...the thing said to unzip them into the top level of my HD
>> and i didn't :( my fault...so i gotta spend about another 90 minutes
>
>> uzipping 800 MB's worth of files again :( OR i put in the wrong mount
>> point for root...i put in hda1 which i think is right but i am not sure and
>> dont know how to tell...fdisk wont tell me for a fat32 filesystem for some
>> reason
>
>From windoze, just issue a "move wherever\linux \" and it should do it in
>less than 2 seconds. =op
>
>As for the mount point, the setup goes like this:
>   hda1
>   
>   a - The letter of each IDE device
>       (eg: a is first master, b is first slave, c is second master, etc.)
>   1 - The partition number (extended partition id numbers are >5)
>   
>So if your Linux partition resides on your first slave drive on the second
>partition, the device name would be /dev/hdb2.
>
>-- 
>Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
>phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
>http://tank.dyndns.org
>