Bug 18371

Summary:	fdisk information appears to be wrong
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Russell Cloran <russell>
Component:	Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Russell Cloran 2003-03-28 09:23:09 UTC

"Finally, let's create the root partition. To do this, type n to create a new
partition, then p to tell fdisk that you want a primary partition. Then type 2
to create the second primary partition, /dev/hda3 in our case."

should read
"Finally, let's create the root partition. To do this, type n to create a new
partition, then p to tell fdisk that you want a primary partition. Then type 2
to create the second primary partition, /dev/hda3 in our case."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the webpage
Actual Results:  
Er, I nearly bungled a friends install :P

Comment 1 Carl Anderson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-28 10:43:03 UTC

The submitter has the exact same paragraph in the "should read" as the original, but I'll take a look at this to see where the changes should go.

Comment 2 Carl Anderson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-28 10:47:56 UTC

Found and fixed the bug.  This has been committed.