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- From: ian@indy.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Ian Griffin)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!indy.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk!ian
- Subject: Re: Problem Installing Linux
- Distribution: world
- References: <bh.930105094140@lab12.eng.auburn.edu>
- Organization: Demon Systems Ltd.
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:20:28 +0000
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- In article <bh.930105094140@lab12.eng.auburn.edu> bh@eng.auburn.edu writes:
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- >I just downloaded the latest SLS distribution for the 0.99 kernel. When I
- >tried installing it on my new machine (which has an Adaptec 1542 SCSI
- >controller) I can't get it to run fdisk to partition the drive. I get
- >an error that it can't read /dev/hda. Any suggestions?
- >
- >73 Brian
- >KD4AEJ
- >.
- >
- >
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- For a SCSI hard disk you should specify /dev/sda (a being the first SCSI
- hard disk)
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- example : fdisk /dev/sda
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- Note : hda is the first IDE hard disk.
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