Subject: Re: What am I missing?
From: Janina Sajka (janina@afb.net)
Date: Sat Sep 11 1999 - 17:59:48 PDT
This is the wierd thing. I select fdisk, because I've read not to use
Druid. 'b' does nothing. Neither does 'l' or 'm'. The cursor simply sits
on the line below /dev/sda. That's what prompted me to try a second
console.
By the way, it is in /tmp/sda. And echo /dev/* and echo /tmp/* shows about
what one would expect.
Am I crazy to think I should yank this drive into an I386 and just
partition it so it has something? I mean, it's totaly nude now. The boot
finds the device--even shows the Seagate ST number, but won't partition.
Janina Sajka, Director
Information Systems Research & Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
janina@afb.net
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Larry Snyder wrote:
> "Wes Bauske" <wsb@paralleldata.com> wrote:
> > Janina Sajka wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm desperate for help on partitioning my drive. I feel my problem may be
> > > elementary, but I can find nothing in the docs to help me get BSD slices
> > > specified.
> > >
> > > My system is an onsale special--AS200. I've picked up a Sony CDR which
> > > works fine, and a Seagate Cheeta, ST34501N, which has never been
> > > partitioned. The scsi controller is the NCR 5353C8xx, revision 3.1h. I'm
> > > booting from SRM V6.9 using the Redhat 6.0 generic.img and ramdisk.img. No
> > > problems booting. I just can't figure out how to partition this hd.
> > >
> > > I've tried starting a second console with Alt-F2 and using:
> > >
> > > fdisk -b /dev/sda
> > >
> > > and several variants of that. Everything simply returns "unable to open
> > > /dev/sda."
> > >
> > > Is this a bad hd? The wrong hd with this controller? Or, is there some
> > > low-level format magic that I'm missing? Please help. I don't even know
> > > where else to search for ideas.
> > >
> >
> > Assuming RH have set up a device for your drive, it won't
> > be in /dev during install. It should be in /tmp. Take a look
> > there and see if it's defined. Make sure the install is far
> > enough along though.
>
> RH's install gives you the option of using fdisk instead of diskdruid.
> If your install gets that far, just do the b from there.
> -ls-
>
> >
> >
> > Wes
> >
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