Are you absolutely sure the drive you're trying to partition is in fact /dev/hdc and not /dev/hda for example? If you have a fresh unpartioned drive in your box, then I don't see why cfdisk would give you a problem with it. Greg On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:01:13PM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi. Problem when installing Slackware 8.0. I have a completely > unpartitioned hard drive in my system, which would be /dev/hdc - meaning > that it is drive number 3. CFDisk and Fdisk will not allow me to write to > this drive, to prepare a Linux partition. Any ideas why this could > be? CFDisk says I do not have permition to write to this drive, and FDisk > says there are no free sectors. I have to say that the SuSE partitioning > tools seem much more intelligent, it handles it with no problem > whatsoever. Assuming I cannot get this to work, is there a tool within > Slackware which would allow me to shrink a FAT32 Windows partition? Better > still, does anybody else run SuSE with speech? If so, could they create me > a boot disk image? > > > > Kind regards, Gordon Smith. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk" > "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539 at one2one.net" > http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk > > ICQ: 23973878 > MSN Messenger: gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk > > Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 > Fax.: +44 1642 357 754 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
