Problem Selecting The Hardrive I need To Install On

bdm

So i'm following the handbook and it says to do 'fdisk /dev/hda', and it gives me this: 'root@GlassCasket:/home/glasscasket# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 24321.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
'. I did this from Kubuntu, but I get the same error during the instalation.

I also have /dev/sdc and /dev/eda, but when I try to fdisk them, I get 'root@GlassCasket:/home/glasscasket# fdisk /dev/sdc
Unable to open /dev/sdc'.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

bdm · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

Also, I'm logged into Kubuntu right now and I'm in the Disk & Filesystem window, Where can I see my free space? Because I know I have at least 100GB of unpartitioned space.

Maybe QParted?

nixnut · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject:

Qparted will work if you wish to work from within a graphical environment.
cfdisk, fdisk and parted will do if you can work from the console. All have man pages where you can find how to use them.
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bdm · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply!

Is this message a bad sign if it appears on the drive you want to install Gentoo on?

'The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30401.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)'

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject:

bdm · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject:

Alright cool, one more thing. I decided to use GParted to make the partitions, then i'll just mount Gentoo on them when the time comes. I know I need a second boot partition for Gentoo, but it dosen't seem to be part of the options. But I do have a /boot partition on the same drive for Kubuntu, can they share it?

Also, since I have a swap partition on the same drive. I'm assuming that I don't need another one. And do I still need to activate it through Gentoo, or will Gentoo automatically reconize it?

Thanks.

bdm · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:33 am Post subject:

Here is the hardrive I will be installing Gentoo, and it also contains Kubuntu.

bdm · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject:

Anyone?

I don't really want to do anything since I don't know if i'll end up rewriting files.