Slackware 10 doesn't see hdb1 in cfdisk

emer_son · 07-25-2004, 02:32 PM

I'm trying to install Slackware 10. When the install cd boots
it lists hdb1 as one of the hard drives in my system.(I also have win2k on it, on a separate HDD) However when I use cfdisk it doesn't list hdb1 as one of the hard drives. I wish to install slack on hdb1. I've tried disconecting hda1and then install again, but cfdisk says "can't open drive" I can use the drive in windows. Anyone have a clue as to how to solve
this problem?

thanks
Dan

WMD · 07-25-2004, 02:37 PM

Do you actually have 2 pysical hard drives? If you did there would be hda and hdb. But if you have one drive with a Windows partition and some empty space, you'd have hda1 and hda2 (once you create it).

emer_son · 07-25-2004, 02:46 PM

I have two physical drives. Both Maxtor's

n00b_casp · 07-25-2004, 02:57 PM

when you use cfdisk, were you able to, at the prompt, say cfdisk /dev/hdb1?

gnashley · 07-25-2004, 03:06 PM

try using fdisk instead of cfdisk. it's more cryptic but cfdisk has some well known faults.

emer_son · 07-25-2004, 04:08 PM

I'll try the /dev/hdb1 with cfdisk. If that fails I'll try fdisk.

Thanks for the help

Dan

Mephisto · 07-25-2004, 08:04 PM

I dont use cfdisk, but shouldn't it be "cfdisk /dev/hdb" hdb1 is a partition on the disk not the disk itself. I use the cryptic fdisk, on which I know it would be "fdisk /dev/hdb", since that is what I grew up on so to speak.