Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Gordon Smith]

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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Kind regards, Gordon Smith.

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