Re: Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Jacob Schmude <jacobs@surferie.net>]

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?
> >
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