Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Gregory Nowak]

If suse sees this drive as /dev/hdc, then
it should be the same under slackware.
I still can't see why suse would work fine with that drive, and slackware wouldn't.
Greg


On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:31:10AM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote:
> I have 5 drives in my box, and the drive I'm trying to use is drive # 
> 3.  Which would, as I understand it, be /dev/hdc.  Suse see it, and will 
> use it just fine.  Slackware, on the other hand, doesn't want to know.
> 
> At 20:10 15/09/01 -0500, Gregory Nowak said:
> >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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