Joe Ready wrote:
> I am new to Linux so these are basic questions.
>
> I have two hard drives in my computer. At boot time both drives are
> recognized by the system. The primary drive has three partions
> HDA1-3. The secondary master shows up as HDC1 with a single partition
> comprising the entire disk. When I go into the hardware browser both
> drives are there. When I go to the disk mount utility HDC1 does not
> show up.
>
> Does this mean the HDC1 is mounted already?
>
> I would like to make a DOS partition on the second hard drive but when
> I try and do it using FDISK from the root directory I get "permission
> denied" What am I doing wrong?
>
> If I chose to use Disk Druid instead of FDISK how do I call the
> program?
>
> Is there any particularily good book someone should have as a
> reference for RH 9.0?

What do you get from the command as root?: fdisk -l
It should show both drives and all partitions on the drives.

By the way "FDISK" isn't the same as "fdisk" on a linux system.
Linux is case sensitive.

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