cannot use cfdisk to create partitions on CF card

Forum: HD Install
Topic: cannot use cfdisk to create partitions on CF card
started by: hankycheng

Posted by hankycheng on May 16 2006,08:43

Hi all

i was use dsl 2.3 live CD version
and install CF to IDE device in PC
But i cannot use cfdisk to create partitions on CF card

It show the error

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FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive, Press any key to exit cfdisk

What's problem?
Thank you

Posted by piccolo on May 16 2006,09:50

Try to boot DSL with the boot option "dsl 2" when you use cfdisk and fdisk. This will boot DSL in mode text only.

Posted by clivesay on May 16 2006,12:07

It's either that you're not doing it as root or you may need to specify the device like

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cfdisk /dev/sda

Make sure the drive you're wanting to format is not mounted

Chris

Posted by hankycheng on May 17 2006,00:05

Quote (clivesay @ May 16 2006,08:07)

It's either that you're not doing it as root or you may need to specify the device like

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cfdisk /dev/sda

Make sure the drive you're wanting to format is not mounted

Chris

i try to type...

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cfdisk /dev/hda

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cfdisk /dev/hda1

also display the permission denied error.

How to mount the drive?

Tks
Hanky

Posted by hankycheng on May 17 2006,04:00

Quote (piccolo @ May 16 2006,05:50)

Try to boot DSL with the boot option "dsl 2" when you use cfdisk and fdisk. This will boot DSL in mode text only.

Great
It can solve the problem
Many thank you!