From: Ian Griffin (ian@indy.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/07/93


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
>.
>
>

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.