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01-25-2003, 06:59 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
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please help...... I cant find the dev/hdb5 directory
Hi...
I have a problem when installing red hat 8.0 it cant find the dev/hdb5 directory..... Please guide me....... Thanx.
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01-25-2003, 07:12 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: 406292E 290755N
Distribution: GNU/Linux Slackware 8.1, Redhat 8.0, LFS 4.0
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Welcome to LQ.org, ra3oob!
What told you to look for this partition? The installer program? Can you give us a little more to go on, like what you're trying to do and how you've laid out your partitions.
Most of these partition questions are pretty straightforward.
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01-25-2003, 04:38 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Grenoble
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 9,696
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/dev is a virtual directory representing all the hardware in the system. /dev/hdb5 is 5th partition on primary slave drive (usually '5' means it's first logical). ANd /dev/hdb5 is a file, not a directory.
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