help with Fedora

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I would try going into rescue mode with fc3 and run fdisk to have a look 
at the disk.  Once in rescue mode, fdisk /dev/hda should go in the p 
command then should show the partitions.  If that give a simelar error, I 
would start checking the hardware.
Make sure the existing linux on the hard drive still boots etc.
A thing that i assume you have checked is that the drive is actually 
connected to the first primary IDE controler and therefore is called hda.
I have had machines where the only drive was connected to the second IDE 
controler's master making it hdc.
HTH Willem


On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Scott Berry wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop.  When I go to install Fedora I 
> get as far as the partitioning.  I wanted to do an automatic when I tried 
> this however, it gave an error like this:  "i/o error not able to read 
> /dev/hda."  I thought it was because there is another Linux distribution on 
> the system but I went in and did a manual but the New Edit and Delete would 
> not come up for some reason.  Can some one give me some advice as how I might 
> go about fixing this?  It is Fedora 3.  I am currently using sighted 
> assistance because my notebook does not have a serial port so I will have to 
> set up Speakup for software speech.  Thanks much.
>
> Scott
> 
>
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