HD Install :: Need partitioning utility



Hi,

DSL Rocks!  It's the only mini-distro I can get to run on my old 233/48mb clone.  Problem- I'd like to install to HD.  It's no longer just curiosity, it's personal now.  I know LiveCD works, but I want to run it on HD.  When I run the install or cfdisk it says it can't access the partitions.  I need a floppy-based partitioning utility since my PC won't boot from CD (requires a bios upgrade I REFUSE to pay for).  I'm currently booting off the boot floppy + CD.

Any suggestions?  Tried fdisk at a dos prompt, created a primary and extended partitions & activated primary hoping DSL would let me install to it upon boot, but like I said, cfdisk says: "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive..." :(

I know I've not partitioned it right, but I can't boot from CD so I can't run qparted off of my Knoppix CD.  Are there floppy-sized utilities that a fairly new linux user could manage?

Appreciate your help.  I really want to walk away from Bill, but this is so frustrating.... :O
Nevermind.....turns out the hd was set as a primary slave and DSL didn't see it.  Set it to primary master and cfdisk works fine.
Hi
Are you sure your running cfdisk as root?  If not try:

sudo cfdisk /dev/hda

good luck

Nevermind!!
My connection is soooooooooooo slooooooooow today that by the time I got my message in you had figured it out.

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