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+You have not yet designated any disk partitions as type Linux.
+
+If you are planning to use OS/2 Boot Manager, make your Linux
+partitions with OS/2 fdisk (or Partition Magic, which also
+includes Boot Manager), format them, reboot this disk, and then
+use Linux fdisk to tag the partitions as type 83 (Linux).
+
+Linux fdisk will select a default device when called without
+arguments, and from there it is menu driven. If you don't want
+to partition the default device, then call fdisk with the device
+you want as the argument, like this:
+
+fdisk /dev/hdb
+
+or this:
+
+fdisk /dev/sda
+
+If you are not using the OS/2 Boot Manager, then you may use Linux
+fdisk to create partitions for Linux. Other than the exception for
+the OS/2 Boot Manager, you are usually better off creating
+partitions for a given OS using a partitioning tool native to that
+OS. In other words, you probably shouldn't try to make your DOS or
+other non-Linux partitions with the Linux fdisk.
+
+"cfdisk" is an equally good version of Linux fdisk that is more
+graphical and menu driven. Many people prefer to use "cfdisk".
+
+Please make one or more partitions for Linux, and try setup again.
+If you haven't already, you might want to also make a swap partition
+while you're in fdisk. 64 megabytes would be a minimum starting size
+for a single user system. Linux swap is tagged as type 82.
+