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anths
02-02-2004, 08:40 PM
Ok, So I am trying to install gentoo on my laptop. I get as far as FDisk. fdisk /dev/hda leaves me with a message saying "you will not be able to write the partition table: Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor SUN, SGI, or OSF Disklabel" and it continues on. Why is it not recognizing my harddrive? This is after a fresh formatting and zeroing out of the drive.

Zwitterion
02-02-2004, 08:48 PM
Maybe its /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc.

On my laptop it happens to be /dev/hdc.

anths
02-02-2004, 08:55 PM
thanks, the laptop was hdc, damn that was frustrating!