that would be fdisk /dev/hdc On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I forgot to ask if you're specifying to cfdisk > that you want to work with the /dev/hdc drive? > By default, cfdisk uses /dev/hda for all operations. > To specify the drive, simply do "cfdisk hdc" for example. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com
