Thomas Stewart writes:
> 
> hi
> >for me 0.0.79 worked with 'fdisk /dev/bda1' on a C286LT, see
> >http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/c286lte.html
> 
> I am new to linux, I know a bit like. But what is a "bda" device?
> tom
> 

bda is the hard disk device as accessed by thew BIOS driver. The direct IDE
driver used hda. To use fdisk with the default BIOS driver just type

fdisk /dev/bda

Not /dev/bda1.

Al

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