Trouble installing slackware with VMware

[madnicness]

So i decided to install (or boot) slackware 10.2 via VMware. Everything seems fine. I type in the username "root" so i can start fdisk. but when i try to do fdisk /dev/sda, it says permission denied...what do i need to do?

[jan1024188]

why are you trying to install slackware with vmware....
boot from slackware s cd and install it....

[madnicness]

because i have a USB CD-ROM, and my bios doesnt support booting from it.

[jan1024188]

ah....sory

but you dont have to use fdisk or cfdisk

make partitions with some other partitioning tools and than simply install slackware on it

[madnicness]

alright then, i do have Powerquest partition magic 8.0. I'm gonna resize my drive to allocate 10 gigs for slackware. I just need to know what format (FAT, NTFS?) I should make the partition.

[jan1024188]

make one ext3 =9gig
and one linux swap = 1gig

[madnicness]

alright, i'll go ahead and try this, and hopefully i wont screw up everything lol. thanks for the help.

[madnicness]

hmm one thing, i see where i can choose it to be EXT3, but not a linux swap. how do i create one for format?

sorry, figured it out

[jan1024188]

hey make paririons with partition magic...you wont screw up enything
than with wmware open slackwares menu
add swap---there add that swap you created with pm
next step is selecting partition
select that ext3 partition you made with pm
format=yes quick
than continue with install
if you have more questions just ask

[madnicness]

hmm i did all the necessary partitioning, but after it asks my username "root", i type setup, press enter, but it still says I have not made any partitions. I tried mounting it by

mount /dev/hda /mnt -t ext3

but it says it isnt a valid block device. is there something i should type instead?