Hey,

I just recently upgraded from Red Hat 7.3 to Red Hat 8.0 and I am reading the book Red Hat Linux 8 Unleashed. It is a pretty good book but it seems that many of the commands that the authors use are not available! This is very frustrating because I get half-way through an example and the command I have to run is not there.

The two I can't find today are fdisk and sfdisk. Can anyone tell me why they are not there and how to get them and many other commands. I thought all the commands where standard.

One example I ran into is the rpm command with -ab, it doesn't work. So I looked around and found the rpmbuild command. Are there many other commands that have changed or are not installed by default.

Thanks

fdisk and sfdisk can only be run as root. Are you root?

Yes, I am root. If I type fdisk and hit <TAB> nothing comes up. So fdisk is not there. Do I have to install it? or does it have a new name under Red Hat 8 (which would seem wrong).

Thanks

Doesn't have a new name here. Did you try:

fdisk -l

thats a lowercase L.

maybe you didnt choose to install when you installed rh 8.

type

rpm -qa | grep fdisk

if it doesnt come up is because you dont have it installed, but it is in one of the cd's. Am not sure in which one it is but most likely is on cd 1 or 2.

Thanks, I guess I didn't install it. I did the custom install and somehow I must have missed it.

Later