Hi Greg. The reason is, as I've since discovered, Slackware isn't seeing the Raid controller on my motherboard. Hence, no additional hard drives. SuSE has specific support for my motherboard, so it sees it properly. I am still not sure whether it is seeing it as /dev/hdc, haven't figured out how to check that as yet. At 12:12 16/09/01 -0500, Gregory Nowak said: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >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
