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Topic: DELL Latitude XPi CD (problems on X-server), X-server error/crash< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,16:46 QUOTE
ok, my dsl on hdd works fine. when i type cfdisk i've got this fatal error: Cannot open disk drive
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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,16:52 QUOTE
You need to be the "root" (IE: super user) in order to use these commands.

Try typing:

sudo su
cfdisk /dev/hdd


The sudo su part will give you root access.
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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,16:54 QUOTE
Also, keep in mind that your FORMAT command is used to format the PARTITION, not the DRIVE.

So, for example if you make a new partition #2 on your hdd drive, you use

cfdisk /dev/hdd

to edit the DRIVE's partition table, but you use

mkswap /dev/hdd2

to format the 2nd partition for swap usage.
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