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Posted: Dec. 18 2003,16:37 QUOTE
i am trying to hdinstall dsl and i run cfdisk as root
cfdisk /dev/hda1
and it wont open
it gives me a "cannot open disk drive press any keyto exit cfdisk"

what to do what to do
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Posted: Dec. 18 2003,16:52 QUOTE
I'm not sure if you have any partitions on your drive yet, so try cfdisk /dev/hda, don't include the 1.
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Posted: Dec. 18 2003,18:37 QUOTE
Traditionally commands stored in /sbin can only be executed by root. Before you can run cfdisk make sure you are either root or type "sudo su" without the quotes. Then, you should be able to run cfdisk.
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