Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Gordon Smith]

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.

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