Installing to Hard Drive

[mattireland]

Hi,

I've had Slackware installed on an old machine for about 10 months or so but haven't used it that much.

I'm just wanting to install it on my new box so I can use it a bit more. When it comes to partitioning, I type cfdisk to partition. However, it doesn't seem to partition the hard disk - it tried to partition the DVD for some reason? I've got a 750GB SATA HD and IDE Asus DVD RW Lightscribe Drive.

Not sure what's wrong? Do I need to enter extra parameters on starting up?

Thanks very, very much!

Matt. I

[Freston]

The issue is probably that you have an IDE DVD and a SATA harddisk. Cfdisk without arguments falls back to the default value of /dev/hda. Which in your setup is your DVD. It's in the man page


And if it's true

cfisk /dev/sda

Should do the trick

[stinkoman]

or try cfdisk /dev/hdb I know my harddrive was hdb even though it was installed via master and the CDROM was instaled via slave setups

[mattireland]

Thanks guys! Your amazing! I'll give it a try!