On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:48:22AM -0500, Jason Tower wrote: > try running fdisk as root rather than normal user (K-->knoppix-->root > shell)
You're laughing at me, aren't you? Thanks. > > jason > > On Monday 26 January 2004 05:45, Mike M wrote: > > My laptop has /dev/hda1 (windoz), /dev/hda5 (Linux), and /dev/hda6 > > (Linux swap), and 20GB unpartitioned. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/partitions > > major minor #blocks name > > > > 3 0 58605120 hda > > 3 1 12610993 hda1 > > 3 2 1 hda2 > > 3 5 19535008 hda5 > > 3 6 497983 hda6 > > > > I want to create a FAT32 partition in the unpartitioned part of the > > disk. > > > > I though I'd use fdisk but I get this: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fdisk /dev/hda > > > > Unable to open /dev/hda > > > > Googling is not helping much. Any hint appreciated. Thanks. > > > > Mike > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
