I have 5 drives in my box, and the drive I'm trying to use is drive # 3. Which would, as I understand it, be /dev/hdc. Suse see it, and will use it just fine. Slackware, on the other hand, doesn't want to know. At 20:10 15/09/01 -0500, Gregory Nowak said: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup 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
