I am a total noob to Linux. I've tried mulitple installs and am
trying to install slackware 10.

I get to the partition part and both cfdisk and fdisk read my 80gb
drive as 683mb. Any suggestions?

BTW, I am using a raid 1 setup.

eggie wrote:

> I am a total noob to Linux. I've tried mulitple installs and am
> trying to install slackware 10.
>
> I get to the partition part and both cfdisk and fdisk read my 80gb
> drive as 683mb. Any suggestions?
>
> BTW, I am using a raid 1 setup.

Make sure you have all the necessary kernel modules loaded. Also make sure
your bios can see the full 80gb.

On 15 Aug 2004 19:37:25 -0700, alltechslo@yahoo.com (eggie) wrote:

>I am a total noob to Linux. I've tried mulitple installs and am
>trying to install slackware 10.
>
>I get to the partition part and both cfdisk and fdisk read my 80gb
>drive as 683mb. Any suggestions?
>
>BTW, I am using a raid 1 setup.

A bit more info needed:

What interface does your 80Gb HD use? (SATA, SCSI, etc.)
What is your HD attached to? Make/model

My guess(tm) is that cfdisk is finding your CD-ROM drive. You'll need
to give cfdisk some parameters to tell it to look at your HD. For
example, I have Slack installed on a mirrored pair of SCSI drives
attached to a Compaq Smart 2-D RAID controller. I had to use
something like:

cfdisk /dev/ida/c0d0

to tell cfdisk where my drives were. Running dmesg should give you an
indication of what you would need to use.


Scott McMillan