Problems correctly recognizing hard drive

LokiPatera · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 2

I have a system that is about 3 years old, an old Compaq Presario 5868 to be exact. It has an original 20GB Western Digital hd. When I use either cfdisk or fdisk in the installation it seems to think my hard drive is a total of 233 MB in size. I am not used to cfdisk or fdisk, but when I ran it off the RH 7.2 install disc it recognized the hard drive's size correctly. I ran fdisk fromt he RH install disc, but it still comes up as 233 MB in the gentoo install. Kinda at a loss of what to do, any help is greatly appreciated.

Oh, yeah, using the 1.4.1 UT-demo install CD

- Loki

0ver.bi+e · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Posts: 60 Location: Columbus, OH

Is that 233MB capacity the size that fdisk shows you after you've removed all partitions? Or is that 233MB free resulting from some other partition?
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LokiPatera · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 2

Seems to be the capacity shown whether I have partitions or not. I cleaned the hard drive before I ran it the first time and it showed 233MB, then I used the fdisk in a RH install disc to create the partitions I wanted, and fdisk in Gentoo still showed what it thought was an unpatitioned hard drive of 233 MB total size.

afazio · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 1

The size of your gentoo_ut2003.iso is 233MB. You were trying to partition your cd. Try:

/dev/hda

or

/deb/hdb

instead. good luck.