Slackware noob, probs with partitioning

grvydude18 · 04-08-2006, 04:13 PM

ok... its probably a stupid mistake...
but when I try to install slackware and delete/create a partition with cfdisk or fdisk it doesn't detect my harddrive

It currently has windows server on it but i wanna get rid of windows. There is only 1 hard drive currently hooked up, it does detect it, and will boot up normally without the slackware cd, into windows server. its an intel celeron (tiger direct special

) should i try using some other linux distro to delete and partition it and then try installing slackware or is it probably something else?

and yes i tried fdisk /dev/hda
and cfdisk /dev/hda

so yeah thank you in advance for any help

mikieboy · 04-08-2006, 04:50 PM

Did you type p at the fdisk prompt after you did fdisk /dev/hda? This should display details of all the partitions on your drive. You then type d to delete a partition, type n to create one.

onebuck · 04-09-2006, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grvydude18

ok... its probably a stupid mistake...
but when I try to install slackware and delete/create a partition with cfdisk or fdisk it doesn't detect my harddrive

It currently has windows server on it but i wanna get rid of windows. There is only 1 hard drive currently hooked up, it does detect it, and will boot up normally without the slackware cd, into windows server. its an intel celeron (tiger direct special

) should i try using some other linux distro to delete and partition it and then try installing slackware or is it probably something else?

and yes i tried fdisk /dev/hda
and cfdisk /dev/hda

so yeah thank you in advance for any help

Hi,

What type HD, ide or scsi?

What is the output of;

Code:

#fdisk -l                  #list the disk
#dmesg | grep /dev/hd      #check for /dev/hd at boot
#dmesg | grep /dev/sda     #check for scsi

We need more information about the system configuration!

grvydude18 · 04-09-2006, 11:46 AM

ok, well apparently i just didn't know how to use fdisk / cfdisk and i didn't know it actually had the hd on hde instead of hda, it was an ide drive, and have it partitioned and everything now to mark 1 as swap and start actual setup
Thanks for the help
(oh and sorry thought i had said it was an ide in the original post, but thanks

)