NEed help migrating from windows(noob)

Astray · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 38

Nevermidn this I solved my problem.

black hole sun · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 245

Do you have an SCSI drive?

Try

fdisk /dev/sda

or if that doesn't work try fdisk --help to get a list of commands. One of them should list your drives and what they are called.

Astray · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 38

Ok, i found out i had to use /dev/hdb (dont know how i jsut tried it)

But when i went to do the partitioning it said it was not able to save any of it...

It said something about no DOS partitions or something of the sort.. i dont exactly remember everything..

lwithers · Guru Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 300 Location: Reading, UK

Try using the cfdisk utility, it's easier to understand what is going on. If you still get an error, copy it down so that we can help you solve the problem.

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

Not to discourage u but if u just migrated from Windows I don't think Gentoo is the best choice for a Linux-distribution for you...

Perhaps u are better off starting with Red-Hat or Debian, these are a bit simpeler and don't go so deep into ur entire system (hardware/software) like Gentoo does.

fctk · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:39 pm Post subject:

he already used redhat... anyway i think he can try switching from windows to gentoo... it's not impossible