Hi... im following the installation for Slackware here http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/...?postid=311808

I have 2 harddrives, master is a 40 gig wd hdd NTFS, slave is a 40 gig seagte (FAT, which will be entirley for linux)

However, my question(s) is, when I boot up slackware installation and type fdisk /dev/hdb/ to fdisk the drive i do not see this (exactly)

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~grog.../05_fdisk3.gif

I see

Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System

however there is no partition underneath it. What do i have to do to create the correct partition i need to continue on with making the other partitions? And also, since i have a dedicated hdd, would the first partition I make.... would I lable it as Partition Number 2 like he did? or #1?

Thanks for the help.

I would guess that if there is no partitition listed, there is actually no partition. Are you sure it is already formatted as FAT? If it is, the partition should show up. Don't know why it is not then.

But anyway, just create new partitions using "n" as it is described in the tutorial. It really doesn't matter how many partitions you create, you just need one for the system and one for swap. Actually you don't even need swap.

About the numbers. Just give it the number fdisk suggests. Should be "1" for the first primary partition since there are no Windows partitions on the disk.

I think that Slacker0815 is right. If you don't have experience with fdisk, you may find that cfdisk is much easier to use. YMMV.

cfdisk is much easier to use.. more GUI friendly. Just remember to use right and left to create new partitions. Usually on a 40 gig i choose
/ (root, say 15 gigs)
swap (depends on how much ram you have)
/home (20 gigs.. or more.. i use it for my data)

Here are some pictures

http://www.schmehl.info/linux/pi2002...uit-cfdisk.png
http://knoppix.7thguard.net/pict/add_program/cfdisk.png
http://www.openoffice.de/linux/buch/...TER/cfdisk.png

please, post results of

fdisk -l (<- that is lower case L)

Well, I did it sorta... I continued with the tutorial. I have my bootloader working perfectly and slackware 10 running great...

Though during install i did something dumb. I just configged ALSA and i accidently set it to play these annoying ANNOYING sounds whenever a window opens. How do i stop that?

Which Desktop environment are you using? I know that for Gnome, you click on the applications menu=> Desktop Preferences=> Sound and uncheck the box for sound for events.

I'm guessing, though that you are using KDE, because as I recall, it had a lot more annoying sounds. It should be pretty similar. Just browse throught the menus.

You should also try to start a new thread when you have an unrelated question. It helps you to get more responses and it helps others in the future who have the same problem.

Good luck,

Can't help you with the sound problem, though it sounds like it isn't an ALSA problem but a KDE/Gnome problem.

In case you still wonder how many partitions you should create: Many people create one for /, one for /home and one for swap. Having /home on a seperate partition is useful when you reinstall the system. You can just unmount /home, format/reinstall the rest and after that you remount /home and got all your stuff in the right place. This is my setup for a 30 GB disk:

/boot 50 MB
/ 2 GB
/var 1 GB
/tmp 200 MB
/usr 8 GB
/home 16 GB

Typical recommendation for swap size is 2x RAM size. However, my system runs fine without swap.

Greets, Slacker0815