I have a 4.3 Gb Hard drive that my bios originally recognised as about 2 gb, I have it fixed in the bios, but fdisk still reports it as only 2 gb. How can I fix this so I have the room for the extra packages I want to install?

You probably need to re-partition your drive. Im not sure how you would go about it with slackware, but with my distro I would simply insert the cd and select 'upgrade' and then follow the instructions for custom disk partitioning. There are commands for examining the existing partitions on your drive within fdisk. I would check through them carefully - I guess that there is a unused parttition thats taking up all the space....

Did you have a windows partition installed before that was never erased??

I had removed all partitions before I started. I've tried repartitioning it a couple time before I came and posted, fdisk will only show it as a 2 gig drive. I'll check again with cfdisk, but I got the same result last time I tried. I even deleted the partitions and wrote the table, then tried to partition it like it was a new drive, but it still only showed up as 2 gig.

If the disk had windows partitions before they should be removed with windows fdisk. Then create new partitions for linux with linux fdisk. Once I got fouled up with a similar deal and nearly lost the hard disk. After trying to remove win partitions with linux fdisk some info was left in the partition table and the partitions still showed in windows fdisk, but couldn't be removed. As I remember I had to recreate the scheme as before under linux, then go in with windows and remove them. I have found the safest thing for dual boot is to create a primary partition and extended partition under windows and then create all linux partitions as logical drives. If you aren't dual booting you can create all your partitions under linux, but windows partitions are always best created and removed under windows.

I don't have any dos or windows partitions on the drive, I had removed them a couple months ago, before I had to take the computer down to move, and hadn't gotten the boot disks I needed to install Slackware. when I wiped the hard drive, I used dos fdisk, because I didn't have a windows system to use, and the Hard drive hadn't been a primary, at least not as far as I knew, it didn't seem to have an OS on it anywhere. I don't have a windows or dos system that I can hook it up to right now, the windows computer that we use for internet and stuff has all the hard drives it can take, and we use them so I can't take one out to check the other disk. Any other Ideas would be helpful