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In article <D5Aw4C.75u@news.hawaii.edu>,
John Samuel Johnson <jsj@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:
>on my system: a 327MB HD running off the primary I/O board and a 1GIG drive
>running off a secondary EIDE controller(a GSI 18). I want to simply make

>
>Then I try fdisk /dev/hdb but I get an error stating that it isn't there.
                        ^
------------------------| for the second interface this should be /dev/hdc

I think the drives are named as follows

	/dev/hda  }  Primary IDE controller 
	/dev/hdb  }

	/dev/hdc  }  Secondary IDE controller 
	/dev/hdd  }

this assumes ... the appropriate nodes are present in /dev (i.e. /dev/hd[cd])
and the kernel on the disk supports a second IDE card. 
[I'm afraid I can't tell you the exact commands but I think theres a script in 
the linux source tree /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/makedevs ?? or something 
that will create the device entries for you, or read 
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/readme.ide]

You could just install everthing _without_ bothering with the dos partition 
and then add an entry into /etc/mtab & /etc/fstab (this is all the setup is 
doing) There is no need to setup dos initially.

/etc/fstab add:
/dev/hda1        /dos/c      msdos       defaults

/etc/mtab add:
/dev/hda1 /dos/c msdos rw 0 0

this assumes you have also created the blank directories /dos & /dos/c (if this
 is what you want to call your dos partition).
And as long as msdos support is compiled into the kernel (almost guaranteed to
be)