From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 21:40:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23847 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:40:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mole.slip.net (mole.slip.net [207.171.193.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23832 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcbquote@slip.net) Received: from oak-hiper1b-169-169.dialup.slip.net ([209.209.6.169] helo=slip.net) by mole.slip.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0zHhTV-0002oM-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:39:54 -0700 Message-ID: <35F9F6D5.E4A41FF3@slip.net> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:21:41 -0700 From: Mihai Beffa Reply-To: mbeffa@pcb-quote.com Organization: WEB-Quote, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SCSI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Linus, Could you please be so kind and help a total novice trying to setup a linux system for the first time? New machine, no software installed. Two Seagate 4.3Gb HDs Intel N440BX Mother Board with SYM53C876 controller on board Boots from DOS, can run fdisk. Boots Slackware Linux from CD-ROM When I try to run fdisk, I receive the message Unable to open /dev/sda ??? Mihai Beffa Cupertino (408) 996-0590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message