[101909] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Running fdisk from rescue floppy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 30 11:41:56 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 07:35:05 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
mott query wrote:
>
> Please pardon my newbie question, but I have been trying to run fdisk from
> the rescue floppies without success. When I specify a drive, I get an
> "unable to open device" error (or wording to that effect) after typing
> "fdisk /dev/hd0" or "fdisk hd0", which makes sense since there is nothing
> in the dev directory.
Well, for starters, there is not such thing as /dev/hd0. The IDE
drives are:
primary master: hda
primary slave: hdb
secondary master: hdc
secondary slave: hdd
and so on. As for nothing in the /dev directory, try the above
numbers and if no luck, use the makedev command.
--
Ramon Gandia ==== Sysadmin ==== Nook Net ==== http://www.nook.net
285 West First Avenue rfg@nook.net
P.O. Box 970 tel. 907-443-7575
Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 ======================= fax. 907-443-2487
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
http://www.redhat.com http://archive.redhat.com
To unsubscribe: mail redhat-list-request@redhat.com with
"unsubscribe" as the Subject.
