Finding HD device

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Finding HD device
started by: dthacker

Posted by dthacker on May 10 2005,18:36

I'd like to throw DSL on one of my new Dell pizza boxes. From the Live CD command line, how can I determine which devices are available to build HD partitions on? hda and sda did not work.

TIA, DT

Posted by dthacker on May 10 2005,19:10

Follow up: I've thrown a SuSe 9.2 install cd in and let it do it's auto-recognize routine on the HD. It shows up as /dev/sda. I then booted DSL in mode 2 (character based) and attempted to run

Code Sample

cfdisk /dev/sda1

. cfdisk is unable to open the drive. Any idea why cfdisk can't open the device?

Dave

Posted by mikshaw on May 10 2005,21:08

/dev/sda1 is a partition. You can't fdisk a partition.

Try "cfdisk /dev/sda"