Ooops! about the fdisk part... I mean... try using the fdisk from
DOS/Win9x... the Linux one is failling already ;-)
About your sugestion Rusty... I won't say nothing... I'm too new in
Linux to understand that king of voodoo :-)
By the way, thanks for your help about changing my HD from hdb to hdc...
but until now... no success... I think that the damn thing wants a full
reinstall... I refuse :-)
Rusty Carruth wrote:
> "jose orlando t. ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> david,
>>
>> it seems that your new(?) HD hasn't been formated and doesn't have any
>> partition created (as a new drive should be).
>>
>> Try to use fdisk to create some partition or file-system to make the
>> system happy and let you add your drive.
>
>
> Thats exactly what he did, and it died.
>
> A POSSIBILITY, assuming that the other stuff is right (and beware -
> I have a feeling that needs to be looked at first!) is to
> simply say 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc count=1' and that will intialize
> number zero to zero.
>
> But I'd not said that till someone else spoke up saying that the
> hardware setup looks good...
>
> oops, now I've said it! :-)
>
> rc
>
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