From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tnt15b-129.focal-chi.corecomm.net ([216.214.210.129] helo=linserver.megsinet.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15iQX5-00052Q-00 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:15:50 -0400 Received: (from romualt@localhost) by linserver.megsinet.net (8.11.4/8.10.2) id f8G1BFc00367 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:11:15 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:10:42 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools. Message-ID: <20010915201042.B339@linserver.megsinet.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010915205534.020890a0@mail.tft-bbs.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010915205534.020890a0@mail.tft-bbs.co.uk>; from gordon@tft-bbs.co.uk on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:01:13PM -0100 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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 "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539@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@tft-bbs.co.uk > > Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 > Fax.: +44 1642 357 754 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup