I don't recognize the error you're getting ... but the command you need is
"fdisk /dev/hda" not /dev/hda1 (that's a partition, not a drive).
At 09:47 PM 2/9/00 -0500, John Marr wrote:
> I am rather new to linux, but I want to install slackware 7 into my
>toshiba satellite T2135CS (486/75 8 mb ram 520 hd). I have read the laptop
>howto (to the best of my ability) plus the laptop section related to my
>laptop. I copied the bare.i bootdisk image with rawrite plus the color.gz
>ramdisk image. I also placed all of "A" set on disks. I booted up my
>book, and the installation informs me that I need to partition my hard
>drive. I know how to do this, but whenever I type in "fdisk" or "fdisk
>/dev/hda1" [is this right for a laptop?] I get a 'Bus Error' reply. Am I
>doing anything wrong here?
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