Re: partitioning a new hard disk

[roberto <roberto03@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:38:53 +0200, roberto wrote:
>
>> hello,
>> a friend gave me a laptop (sony vaio) where i want to install debian
>> squeeze (in dual boot);
>> actually the disk is partitioned as follows (output from mount command,
>> #'s are my comments):
>
> (...)
>
> Better than "mount" issue "fdisk -l" and put the output.
>

actually, fdisk -l does not output nothing

i also tried to issue
fdisk /dev/sda
and it prints
"unable to open /dev/sda"

i am using an ubuntu live cd

-- 
roberto