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Hi everyone, I'm actually working with Redhat AS, but I wanted to try Slackware 10.1, but I've always experienced some problems since I wanted to install Slackware 10.0. The first problem was that Slackware 10.0 didn't recognize my hard drive 'cause it's an ATA Hard Drive, so I decided to wait for the next version of slackware that is Slackware 10.1, so I uninstalled Redhat, after that I proceeded to insert the disk 1 to the CD-ROM Drive (This is Obvious), and after that I rebooted the computer. The computer booted with the Slackware CD, in the boot prompt I chose the ataraid.i kernel for boot, after that in the prompt line I typed "cfdisk" for make the partitions, but once that I typed that, there appears a message saying the next: "Read-Only Disk Opened, You Don't Have Permission" and After that it asks to make the partitions, and It gets even worse 'cause it only lets me make a partition of 600MB when my hard drive has 120 GB. And there's another thing funny too, 'cause I wanted to make sure if the problem was my hard drive or the installation CD, so I decided to make partitions with another distribution Installation disk, and the only distribution that recognizes my hard drive it's the same distribution that I used to work with, RedHat AS (Enterprise Edition). can somebody help me out. 'cause I've been working with Redhat for a very long time and I really wish to taste something different. Thanks
What kind of ATA controller are you using? And ataraid.i shouldn't be needed for standard ATA. Are you sure you're not trying to open the cd drive or anything with fdisk? Does fdisk recognize the drive as the right size?
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