On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote:
On 10/26/05, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can we go further?
Have you partitioned the drive yet, Paul?
{^_^}
No, I have not, Jdow. How can I do that?
"fdisk /dev/hda"
But PLEASE PLEASE read partitioning HOWTOs and documentation first so you
know what you are doing, first.
Of course, you could bring up the same partitioning tool you saw when
installing, DiskDestroyer or something like that, and use it. But you
still want to read the partitioning HOWTOs to get a notion of how you
want to partition the drive.
Or use parted. Or kparted (parted with a GUI).
I realize grub documentation is impenetrable by sane people. But do give
it a try. After doing so I recommend a visit with your local shrink if
you think you understand grub's documentation. {^_-}
ROFL.
{^_^}
Thanks again, Jdow. Perhaps, the best solution for a inexpert like me
is to install some operating system on hda, and the partitioning will
be done. Tried:
$ fdisk /dev/hda
Unable to open /dev/hda
$
OOPS! THAT is a problem. The OS does not see the disk. This is not a
good thing. It might be interesting to look at the dmesg log after a
reboot to see how if the drive is found. If it is then "/dev/hda"
should be a valid drive. I wonder if something else has it active.
Or he isn't root. fdisk won't open a device it can't write to. Normal
users can't write to raw disk devices.
Er, did you hotplug the drive? I'm not even sure how you booted without
the boot sector in place - I suppose you selected a different drive as
the boot drive in your BIOS? (To recognize the new drive you probably do
need to reboot.) I'd expect the knoppix live CD to recognize the drive,
though, if you're still working from it.
I can see that the BIOS recognizes the disk. So I guess it is
correctly hotplugged. On the other hand, the computer does not boot,
unless I introduce the live CD, as the boot sequence is:
cdrom, disk
Paul
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