DSL Embedded :: fdisk -l not working for any drives

dsl@box:~$ fdisk -l
cannot open /dev/sda1
cannot open /dev/hda
cannot open /dev/hdb

sda1 is the only mounted one not that it should matter for this.
Why is this and how do I change it please ?

You have posted in the embedded Qemu area in which case you don't have access to physical drives unless you setup addition Qemu specific parameters in the batch file.

For natively booted DSL, you need root access. Use:

sudo fdisk -l

Your suggestion works thank you.
I am not running it under windows, I booted from my flash drive directly.
I was under the impression that I was logged on as root, I was wrong apparently.
Kinda silly of me actually.
Was this the wrong place to ask this question ?
I was told to download the embedded version to put it on a usb stick so that is what I have.

You are logged into the user 'dsl' by default boot, but it's given 'sudo' access for super-user privileges.

original here.