If suse sees this drive as /dev/hdc, then it should be the same under slackware. I still can't see why suse would work fine with that drive, and slackware wouldn't. Greg On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:31:10AM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
