Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Gregory Nowak]

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.
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