Laptops :: help with the livecd



i wanna use cfdisk with the livecd and say me "cannot open the disk drive", i dont know why, plz help
What is the command you are trying and are you sure you are specifying the correct drive.  I you use fdisk -l you can see what you currently have.

eliza:/home/dtf # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       24320   195350368+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1         131     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb2             132        2741    20964825   83  Linux
/dev/hdb3            2742        9729    56131110    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5            2742        9725    56098948+  83  Linux
eliza:/home/dtf #

I have two drives I can configure /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.

If I want to configure /dev/hda then I enter

cfdisk /dev/hda
you would also need to be root to use cfdisk.

sudo su
cfdisk /dev/xxxx

where xxxx equals the drive designation.
let me explain better

im noob in linux first,

i using the livecd to boot my old laptop, later i try to use the cfdisk command, to make partitions on the disk in the laptop to make a install from the livecd to the disk.

i dont know what is the password for the root in the livecd.
the sudo su command work fine for me thanks, let me check
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