From: ian@indy.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Ian Griffin) Subject: Re: Problem Installing Linux Date: 7 Jan 1993 16:20:28 GMT
In article <bh.930105094140@lab12.eng.auburn.edu> bh@eng.auburn.edu writes:
>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)
example : fdisk /dev/sda
Note : hda is the first IDE hard disk.