How can I detect if a systems hard disk is
/dev/sda or /dev/hda or other, I need this to detect
before booting up, i'm making a install cd to automatically
install linux onto a hard drive?

On Thu, 13 May 2004, ju wrote:
> How can I detect if a systems hard disk is
> /dev/sda or /dev/hda or other, I need this to detect
> before booting up, i'm making a install cd to automatically
> install linux onto a hard drive?


generically, the operation is called 'probing'.
slackware has dprobe, found deep inside of the
usual slackware initrd image.

or, an enhanced version is available:

ftp://prv8.net/slackstuff/dprobe





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