>Your installer should normally handle disk partitioning and partition
>formatting, but if you want to do it by hand you'll need mke2fs (or >similar) after creating the partitition table and then some partitions >in fdisk.
i am happy if i could just that. i did fdisk about 10 times for now. everytime i do it. the same error scrolling across my screen after i hit the write command in fdisk.