Ok, so maybe I'm being dumb, but i'm having a hell of a time trying to install slack on my Sager NP9880 Laptop.

I have installed slack plenty of times on a regular IDE system without problems, but I now own this great laptop which I use for pretty much everything.

Problem is that I can't seem to find the harddrive when I try to partition with fdisk. I know that SATA drives require special drivers and have tried booting with sata.i and test26.i , but neither have seemed to detect anything on /dev/hda or /dev/sda

However, I do get a /dev/hda prompt - but it tells me its only 668 MB and doesn't contain a valid partion type of any kind - and that I can't write to it at all.

Any suggestions?

Hi,

try this command for using fdisk:
That should give you access to your SATA drive

I had the same thing happen to me, and it worked with the "sata.i" kernel. If you're trying to partition it will try to access the default /dev/hda drive; which in this case is probably your CD-ROM drive. I suggest starting fdisk or cfdisk with the command: fdisk /dev/sda that worked for me at least. Good luck


Edit: ^^ darn, beat me to it :P

I stated that in my post above about /dev/sda, it says there is nothing, along with b,c,d,e,f,g...etc