Hi Based on the system layout you gave me, the drive you want to partition is /dev/hdd, not hdc which is your second drive. HTH On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:49:26AM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi. The layout of my system is a little strange, this was necessary. It is: > Drive 1 = primary master > CD-ROM = primary slave > Drive 2 = ATA100 primary master > Drive 3 = ATA100 Primary Slave > Drive 4=ATA100 Secondary Master > Drive 5 = ATA100 Secondary slave > > I have the 3 boot devices configured in my BIOS as Floppy, HD0, (Primary > Master), and HD3, (ATA100 Primary Slave). Perhaps the reason it works with > SuSE is that the installer is graphical, and it's just a case of clicking > buttons. So, based on your suggestion below, it may be that what I am > calling /dev/hdc is in reality not /dev/hdc. Hadn't occured to me > actually, so thanks for that tip. > > At 01:55 16/09/01 -0400, Jacob Schmude said: > >Hi > > The third drive? That isn't really how linux does things. Where is it > > connected to? Primary master/slave or secondary master/slave? This is > > important, as linux doesn't go in a drive1, drive2,and drive3 manner. > > INstead, it goes like this: > >/dev/hda, /dev/hdb: primary master, primary slave > >/dev/hdc, /dev/hdd: secondary master, secondary slave > >etc. In fact, usually /dev/hdc is used by an IDE cdrom. Try this command > >on the boot disk to find out where the drive is: > >dmesg | grep -i hd > > You'll see your first drive found as hda, the the second hard drive > > will be found somewhere. Note this will also tell you where your cdrom > > resides. Not having permission to write to a drive usually occurrs when > > trying to partition a read-only media drive, like a cdrom. > > > >HTH > > > > > >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? > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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
