Re: dsl



Lew Pitcher wrote:
On Aug 7, 1:07 pm, Rodney Kelp <rdnk...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Damn Small Linux can't install on the second harddrive? I have a swap
partition and an ext2 partition all set up on hdb, the 'D" drive and dsl
won't see it. cfdisk won't see it, install won't see it.

Are you certain that you are telling it the correct place to look?

With PATA drives,
the master drive on the primary controller is called /dev/hda
the slave drive on the primary controller is called /dev/hdb
the master drive on the secondary controller is called /dev/hdc
the slave drive on the secondary controller is called /dev/hdd

When you refer to your "D" drive, you /probably/ mean /dev/hdb

For SATA drives, those same drives are /dev/sda through /dev/sdd

Show us the results of
cat /proc/partitions
and perhaps we can help find your "D" drive for you


It's an old PATA 30 gig drive that is the slave on the primary IDE.
I tried hdb, hdb1 and hdb2 to no effect.

Besides, why can't cfdisk see everything running in a root terminal?
cfdisk only sees the primary master. Don't make sense.

I have C drive with Windows ME on the master which is a 7 gig drive.
I have D drive in a 15 meg partition on the slave which is also FAT32.
I have a 7.5 meg swap partition and the balance in an ext2 partition on
the slave. I used Partition Magic 8 to make everything. dsl said the
partition had to be pre-made. This is an AMD K6-2 400 machine with 192
meg of ram.
I tried a SLAX boot cd and the same thing. fdisk only sees both FAT32
disks /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1
and cfdisk only sees the primary drive. By the way, fdisk on SLAX
thinks the entire 30 meg is FAT32 when Windows only sees 15 meg.
.



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