Posted March 4, 200520 yr Just some quick questions regarding my attempt to install linux last night. Burned the installation files to CDs (yes i did that properly). Booted to windows, started up partition magic, and attempted to make a ext2 partition. I believe this is the right type of file format for slackware 10.0 Anyways, partition magic was being fucked and wouldn't make the partition. So I just booted from the CDROM, got to the slackware menu, and the CFDISK and FDISK tools wouldn't work. Any thoughts? I ended up overburning one of the disks, could that possibly be related to the problem? (664mb burned on a 650 mb disk)
March 4, 200520 yr What is the error you're getting when running the commands? Are you passing the drive you want to partition to [c]fdisk? Fdisk hard drive1 fdisk /dev/hda cfdisk /dev/hda
March 4, 200520 yr Author CFDISK = Fatal Error, Hard Drive not found FDISK = /dev/hda = Unable to locate hard drive. Run setup, it says there is no part of the drive partitioned for linux. Partition magic is acting quirky. It will make a ext2 partition, then I will boot and it wont exist.
March 4, 200520 yr Try hdb, hdc, hdd. If your using scsi then it'll be /dev/sdx. you could try: dmesg | grep ide and see if the kernel is detecting the hard drives. ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1848-0x184f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 On my laptop, ide0 (/dev/hda) and ide1 (/dev/hdb) were detected.
March 4, 200520 yr Author Awesome, thanks for your help. Ill have a look at it later and see if I can get it working. Thanks again!
March 11, 200520 yr RIFK!!!! press apply!!!!!! and alos dont just format, use the install new OS option **edit** and use debian instead **edit**
March 11, 200520 yr if you already created a partition with partition magic why the fuck are you running fdisk? If you already setup an ext2 partition just install. Easiest way to install would be just get a 2nd hd.
March 13, 200520 yr Author OverlordQ']if you already created a partition with partition magic why the fuck are you running fdisk? If you already setup an ext2 partition just install. Easiest way to install would be just get a 2nd hd. I'm running slackware now, it needed a reiserFS format :P
