teencoder

Okay when I get er' plugged in and make sure the BIOS boots off of CDs I'll redo my partitions and get a nice dual boot system also which desktop environment should I install can I simply install both and see which one I like most.

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coldDeath

Fluxbox is good, but KDE has more eye candy features if you like that sorta thing. Quite a few people like fvwm aswell. :-D

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teencoder

Help I can't see my hard drive with cfdisk. Any Remedies?

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coldDeath

You can't see your harddisk from cfdisk. That doesn't make a lot of sense.

Run this, and show us the output:
It lists the harddrives.

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teencoder

Disk /Dev/hde 13.5 GB, 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 units = cylinders of 16065 X 512=8225280
/dev/hde1 * 1 1650 1325359+ c w95 Fat32 (LBA)
Funny fdisk finds it.

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Rory

Cfdisk grabs everything from UDev, and the only possible explanation for a drive not enumerating unless you've made a config mistake, or there's something wrong with the drive itself, is you're running a kernel that doesn't have the modules/compiled-in support for your hard disk controller. Gentoo for example didn't support my SATA RAID with the kernel running on the livecd so I had to manually modprobe nvraid. Did you build your own kernel or do you have an obscure disk controller?

teencoder

I'm using the kernal it comes with fdisk found it but I have no idea how to use fdisk I see it talk about an IDE Hard Drive in all the gobbledegook while it's loading.

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teencoder

Everything is installed and running. I feel proud. My problem was solved when I managed to delete my partition in fdisk making the free space appear. I also discovered after cfdisk you have to type your hard drive name. Maybe this was agiven however I am a Linux NOOB. P.S. I installed NASM with the packages how do I find it? Thanks for the tutorial.

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coldDeath

To use nasm, open up a console window, and type "nasm" and press enter. You'll probably need to use "nasm -h" or "man nasm" for a bit of help on using it ;-)

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teencoder

No problem thanks for the info.

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