"Joe Ready" <j0eb0b@snigglet.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe

I'm new to Linux myself (about a week) but isn't hdc your CDROM drive?
It seems to me that a second hard drive would show up as hdb, I'm
assuming that you don't have it attached to some additional ide port
card like a ata100 controller or something like that which could
complicate the issue. If, in fact, hdc is CDROM then that explains why
it's a single partition that you can't access. What sort of things
show up in /dev and /mnt? The man pages are your friends, takes a lot
of reading to figure this stuff out.

Rodney