I hope somebody here can point me in the right direction...

I've got a laptop running Windows XP Pro.

I've installed VMware Workstation 4.5.2 build 8848 on it.

I've got a set of Slackware 10.1 CDs.

I insert my Slackware 10.1 Disk #1 in the drive, start up VMware, click "New Virtual Machine", go through all the steps and boot my Slackware distribution in VMware.

My physical hard disk has 12GB free space, and I have set up the virtual disk to be SCSI with pre-allocated 6GB.

Once I log into the Slackware live CD, I need to fdisk my virtual disk so I can install Slackware on it. This is where I'm having a problem. I do not know which device to use to run fdisk on.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

You could also run cfdisk (that's what i usually do)

And since you configured VMware to create a SCSI disk you'd probably need to run fdisk on /dev/sda

Don't know if this is what you were asking...

I found the problem. When I was booting Slackware, I was using the "bare" kernel configuration when I should have been using one with SCSI support. The SCSI device files did not exist in the bare configuration.