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ralan

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Posted: Jan. 02 2007,19:06

Hello,

I'm trying to do a frugal install to the hard drive. I can't get cfdisk to work. I'm using Aterm and I found cfdisk in /KNOPPIX/sbin.

I cd into /KNOPPIX/sbin and

when I try cfdisk /dev/hda1

I get bash telling me it's not a directory or I get a fatal error.

I'm just trying to make a 50 meg partition to do the frugal install.

So how do you make a 50 meg partition?

eeffoC

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Posted: Jan. 02 2007,21:10

Hi!

You shouldnt have to browse in the appropriate directory to be able to use cfdisk.

Try as user with root rights - type: "sudo su"

Then type: "cfdisk /dev/hda"

Notice: Do not type any numbers in the end of hda because they would represent partitions instead of physical drives.

Hope this helps.

Best regards, Jan

ralan

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Posted: Jan. 06 2007,17:39

Thanks for the reply,

Ok, so that works sort of.

after sudo su

I type cfdisk /dev/hda

and I see the partions

hda1 boot primary win95 FAT32 2766.38
hda5 logical FAT16 487.20

The computer has win98 on it and I want to make a 50meg or so partition for dsl.

Trouble is I don't know how to do it.
I tried cdfdisk /dev/hda 50 M and all I get is the help screen with isn't very helpful.

So what is the command / command sequence.

Thanks

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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,07:06

cfdisk will only create and delete partitions, but does not resize.
So if you do not have any 'free' untouched space you'll either have to
- make some space
- install dsl to a current partition
- use another tool to resize your current setup (ie parted/gparted/qparted)

ralan

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Posted: Jan. 09 2007,23:42

Can't find parted or gparted or qparted in dsl anywhere. I'm gonna need some more specific instructions, if you don't mind.

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