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|  How to detect a SATA drive from Knoppix 5?
Hello everyone,
I am very new and keen in trying out to Linux/Knoppix but got stuck when knoppix wasnt able to detect my SATA drive.
When I boot from a Knoppix 5 live DVD, Knoppix was not able to detect my SATA HDD. My SATA HDD can be detected in the BIOS and there are 3 partition:
Partition1 holds XP Pro
Partition2 prepared to install Knoppix on it.
Partition3 holds Vista.
I am able to boot XP and Vista with no problems. So, my question is if I am not able to detect my SATA drive during Knoppix live DVD bootup, how do I tell Knoppix that I have a SATA drive with partition2 ready for its hard disk installation?
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| How did you determine that it did not detect it? What is the output from Code: sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
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| Hi bigtomrodney, Quote:
Originally Posted by bigtomrodney  How did you determine that it did not detect it? What is the output from Code: sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
(That's a lowercase L) | I dont see any Hard disk icon on my desktop only a floppy drive icon plus a knoppix icon, when I use conqueror to look around, I dont see any hard disk icon as well.
When I use your code in the terminal screen, it returns nothing(no error, no msg).
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Originally Posted by devils_casper Execute this Post output here. | Hi,
Sorry for the late reply, have been playing with knoppix installed on another ide hard disk...cant get the internet connection to work(i am behind a wireless router for my cable modem)..been scratching my head for the last few days.... any guidance anyone? ^^=
anyway, I have just tried your command fdisk -l in the terminal screen, it still return nothing...no output, no error, no messages
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Originally Posted by ken39 Sorry for the late reply, have been playing with knoppix installed on another ide hard disk...cant get the internet connection to work(i am behind a wireless router for my cable modem)..been scratching my head for the last few days.... any guidance anyone? ^^= | I would suggest you to start a new thread for this problem. Execute this Post output in New Thread. Quote: |
Originally Posted by ken39 anyway, I have just tried your command fdisk -l in the terminal screen, it still return nothing...no output, no error, no messages
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| Knoppix uses sudo, so your command would be:
sudo fdisk -l
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Originally Posted by MikeTbob Knoppix uses sudo, so your command would be:
sudo fdisk -l | I just checked it. su and sudo, both work fine in Knoppix.
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Originally Posted by devils_casper I just checked it. su and sudo, both work fine in Knoppix. | Cool, I did not know that. Is there a particular password to use with Knoppix su?
I know Sabayon uses sabayonuser as password.
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Cool, I did not know that. Is there a particular password to use with Knoppix su?
| No password. its Enter key as in Ubuntu.
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