Bug 9454

Summary:	fdisk returns "Unable to open /dev/hda" during installation
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	claperle
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	claperle, srevivo
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2000-02-18 11:56:27 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description claperle 2000-02-15 02:52:25 UTC

This problem has 2 parts:

1) When I do an expert installation, the option to switch to fdisk, instead
of DiskDruid, is not shown on the partition page/window. To be able to use
fdisk, I need to open a virtual shell using Ctrl-Alt-F2.

2) When I try to use fdisk in the virtual shell using "fdisk /dev/hda", I
get "Unable to open /dev/hda".

In other words, no matter what, I cannot use fdisk to do the partitionning
instead of DiskDruid. Is there a way to use fdisk instead of DiskDruid as
mentionned in the documentation?

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-02-17 23:37:59 UTC

I suppose you need to create a mknod for the hda first. Are you sure you have an
IDE disk on your system?

this is an installer problem

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2000-02-18 11:56:59 UTC

Fdisk is available to the user in expert mode in the 6.1 release.  So, at the
boot prompt, just type "linux expert" and when you get to the Installation Class
screen (where you select Workstation or Server or Custom, etc.) there is a
little checkbox in the upper right corner which will allow you to use fdisk
instead of Disk Druid for partitioning.