Re: Short newbie question
%from wrote:
> Hi Debians
> Whats the "partition's block device name"?
> I'm trying to install Debian from the dos-partition using dselect.
> I copied alle the files from the ftp(main, etc.)-archives and put them
> into
The name will be something like /dev/hda1. If you look at fdisk or
cfdisk you will see the name listed. You can use fdisk /dev/hda and
from there type p and it will list all the patitions that you have on
your HD. Then you just look for the one that is formated for dos and
use that name. Of course this is asuming that you are using the first
HD in the IDE chain. you will have to change the 'hda' to what you are
using if that is not the case.
> the dos partition.
> I believe Linux should be able to "see" the dos-part., but I don't
> know the
> path to it in linux-speak. (It worked fine a week ago, in my first
> attempt,
> but that was only the "base" system).
> I tried putting /dev/hda1/ but got the error: /dev/hda1/ is not a
> block
> device.
> What am I doing wrong? (Yes I did check the "Installing debian
> gnu/Linux"
> manual, but found only basic inst. info., which I am getting familiar
> with...)
> Regards
> Vitux
>
> "Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer."
>
>
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