I was trying to install dual boot, slackware with Windows XP, on my Dell
laptop. I put the WinXP installation disk in and created a smaller
partition for Windows and installed XP on that NTFS partition. I then put
the first slackware installation disk in and ran cfdisk (it's easier than
fdisk). cfdisk gave me the error message that I couldn't write to that
drive because it's read only. I tried a bunch of different kernels but got
the same message. So I tried Fedora Core. That installed fine on the
unformatted part of the disk, but I noticed that it called the hard drive
hdc instead of hda. I then tried the slackware installation disk again and
ran cfdisk /dev/hdc, and there it was. But I've only got one hard drive.
So what's going on?

Like I said, it's an idiot question...

Ed LaBonte wrote:

> ...but I noticed that it called the hard drive
> hdc instead of hda. I then tried the slackware installation disk again
> and ran cfdisk /dev/hdc, and there it was. But I've only got one hard
> drive. So what's going on?

Could it be that your floppy and CD drives are hda and hdb? Or of course
vice versa.
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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Ed LaBonte dared to utter,
> But I've only got one hard drive.
> So what's going on?

Your hard drive is the secondary master, your CD-ROM is the primary
master.

CD-ROM is /dev/hda
HDD is /dev/hdc

That's directly opposite what is typical.

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