partition without initializing it at this point would be to mount a
partition upon which you have already performed some part of the
installation process using this same set of installation floppies.

Select the ``Next'' menu item to initialize and mount the / disk
partition. The first partition that you mount or initialize will be the
one mounted as / (pronounced ``root''). You will be offered the choice to
scan the disk partition for bad blocks, as you were when you initialized
the swap partition. It never hurts to scan for bad blocks, but it could
take 10 minutes or more to do so if you have a large disk.

Once you've mounted the / partition, the ``Next'' menu item will be
``Install Operating System Kernel and Modules'' unless you've already
performed some of the installation steps. You can use the arrow keys to
select the menu items to initialize or to mount disk partitions if you
have any more partitions to set up. If you have created separate
partitions for /var, /usr, or other filesystems, you should initialize or
mount them now.

Mount a Previously-Initialized Partition

An alternative to the ``Initialize a Partition'' step is the ``Mount a
Previously-Initialized Partition'' step. Use this if you are resuming an
installation that was interrupted or if you want to mount partitions that
have already been initialized.

Install Operating System Kernel and Modules

This should be the next menu step after you've mounted your root
partition, unless you've already performed this step in a previous run of