Cannot Open Disk Error

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Cannot Open Disk Error
started by: TXLinuxNoobie

Posted by TXLinuxNoobie on Feb. 05 2006,01:43

I got a never before used 3GB hard drive and I figured I might as well use DSL since it's the smallest distro of linux i know of, but I can't install it to the hard drive. CFDISK in the BASH won't work. It says "Error: Can not open disk drive"? There's a 512MB DOS Partition.

Any help?

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 05 2006,05:58

Are you running it as root, ie:

sudo su
cfdisk /dev/hdb

Posted by larkl on Feb. 05 2006,13:08

Is the BIOS seeing the drive? You may want to look at this, sounds like you just installed it. You may have better luck with a separate disk utility. I use < AEFDisk >, but there a lots of good ones out there.

Posted by Guest on Feb. 05 2006,19:04

or you have some evil SIS stuff on your computer.

Posted by Guest on Feb. 13 2006,16:11

I have founded a way to go around this SiS problem. All what you need to do is to use one cheat code at startup and it is

dsl dma

That will do something to something i dont know, but it works, but ONLY WITH FRUGAL install, "normal" hd install dont work for some reason, and dont care about those error messages after that fstab thing.

Remember to add that cheat to your menu.lst after installing it.

Posted by Guest on Feb. 13 2006,16:12

Posted by Guest on Mar. 06 2006,08:19

Another way to use SIS stuff with damn small linux hd install is to use damn small linux ver. 0.5 .3.1 (based on knoppix 2.2 or earlier) Newer versions of Knoppix just dont work with sis for some wierd reason. Dsl 0.6 and newer versions dont work with sis because those are based on knoppix ver 2.3 or never.

Is there going to be support for SIS in upcoming Damn smalls?

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 06 2006,17:30

Only if it is supported in the linux 2.6.x kernel tree, I would guess.