can't fdisk new hd
 

I have a dual boot system(triple boot system) (REdhat 9.0, XP pro, and Server 2000) I have just added a new hard drive to it. I booted to Redhat and the drive was detected, (hdd-slave on secondary IDE) as it was in all OS's.

This is the problem---seems as if there is no utility in RedHat( my Redhat atleast) to create a partition and format. I 've researched to no end about fdisk but it seems as if my bin ain't got fdisk in it? Am I looking in the wrong place for fdisk? Do I just switch user, provide my root password and type fdisk to evoke that application? Can I only use DRUID during the install? Are there utility disks out there to make this easier?

I'm a newbee to Linux , any help on this problem will be very helpfull.

"it seems as if my bin ain't got fdisk in it?"

On my machine fdisk is only available to root. Log in as root and try fdisk.


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Isn't that what 'su' does-switch user for access to root?

This brings up another question so I'm happy you brought that up

Can I log into root during the boot up process by supplying my administrator user name and password? seems as if I can only login as a user and then switch to (su) a user with root access.

Are these two totaly different things? Am I really that confused?

"Can I log into root during the boot up process by supplying my administrator user name and password? "

Yes. Your administrator user name is root. So login as root and give the root password.

"Are these two totaly different things?"

They are partially different. su root has a different PATH than root. This varies by distribution but on my machine neither user nor su root can run fdisk but root can.

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Thanks dude- very helpfull