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Hello. Trying to install slackware. I can't partition the drive because the it doesn't get recognized. If I enter cfdisk at the root prompt I get an error message that it doesn't find a drive. If I use fdisk /ded/sda or hda I get nothing at all. I'm guessing my system is too current and new for the distro (v. 12.1.) Any other ideas?
I did fdisk -l. That produced the same thing any other version of the command produces - no drive found. I'll try the other one. The drive is fine. I can install other distros on it without a problem. I wiped the partitions before trying to install. I'm installing 12.1 because it is the DVD I have.
Most likely the kernel doesn't have support for your RAID or SATA controller compiled in. If you'll be kind enough to give us some more information, we might be able to help you find a fix. Start with "lspci -v" please.
I really need to learn that with Slack...I used to do that stuff back in the old DOS days....but I've become GUI dumb
It isn't that hard. cfdisk is user-friendly compared to fdisk. I suggest that you give cfdisk a try when the next stable version of Slackware is released.
Breaking free of GUIs is a good thing.
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I did fdisk -l. That produced the same thing any other version of the command produces - no drive found. I'll try the other one. The drive is fine. I can install other distros on it without a problem. I wiped the partitions before trying to install. I'm installing 12.1 because it is the DVD I have.
That happened recently with a friend of mine so I recommended he put a small FAT or NTFS partition on his hard drive and try again. Once done, the hard drive was visible to the Slackware boot disk and he went ahead, deleted the partition, made his Linux partitions, and proceeded from there.
Last edited by cwizardone; 04-29-2009 at 09:12 AM.
Most likely the kernel doesn't have support for your RAID or SATA controller compiled in. If you'll be kind enough to give us some more information, we might be able to help you find a fix. Start with "lspci -v" please.
lspci says "not found." It is the command, apparently that is not found, not the drive.
That happened recently with a friend of mine so I recommended he put a small FAT or NTFS partition on his hard drive and try again. Once done, the hard drive was visible to the Slackware boot disk and he went ahead, deleted the partition, made his Linux partitions, and proceeded from there.
I'll try that. At the moment that particular hard drive has Scientific Linux installed on it so there are two partitions already on the drive. If you think putting an NTFS partition will help, I'll get on it.
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