Greetings:
Actually, I think I figured out what is the matter. I kept getting bus
error, but being the person I am I kept trying to do it. Eventually I got
into fdisk with 'fdisk /dev/hda1' but I was informed that "The number of
cylinders for this disk is set to 1053. There is nothing wrong with that,
but this is larger than 1024. And could in certain setups cause problems
with: 1. Software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2. Booting and
partitioning software from other Oss (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 Fdisk).
I tried to change the cylinder number for the hard drive, but it is set to
'auto' and I cannot seem to change it. Could anyone please offer any
advice? Would it make a difference if I booted up a win98 boot disk, then
formated the drive then rebooted with my slack boot disk?
I will post again if I can get this working.
John Marr
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 11:03 PM
To: John Marr; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Laptop install of slack 7
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?
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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