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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,01:43 QUOTE
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?
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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,05:58 QUOTE
Are you running it as root, ie:

sudo su
cfdisk /dev/hdb
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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,13:08 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,19:04 QUOTE
or you have some evil SIS stuff on your computer.
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Posted: Feb. 13 2006,16:11 QUOTE
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.
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