David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<WhBZb.28579$4o.44896@attbi_s52>...
> 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.

Thanks for the tip on case sensitivity. I'm sure that is problem one
since I was typing in upper case.

I seem, however, to be sliding backwards. When I attempted to log in
this morning I get the error "Your account has expired, contact your
system adminstrator". My system is configured with only a single user
(me). Trying to reboot with the recovery diskette also fails. Any
idea how to regain access?

Thanks, Joe