Are you sure that's the actual name for it? hdb? Sure it's not hdc, or hdd?

What kind of motherboard are you running? Is the drive PATA or SATA? These things make a difference.

Let us know how you're set up, and then we can figure something out for you.

I mean the set up will only find my central hard drive thats all. Other then that FBSD found it, and almost every other distro, Slackwares my first time with this error. Im going to guess its a SATA,

Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 52-0100-009999-00101111-071595-AMD75x$0AASNP02_
Motherboard Name Unknown

Front Side Bus Properties:
Bus Type DEC Alpha EV6
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 100 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock 200 MHz
Bandwidth 1600 MB/s

Memory Bus Properties:
Bus Type SDR SDRAM
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 100 MHz
Effective Clock 100 MHz
Bandwidth 800 MB/s

Chipset Bus Properties:
Bus Type PCI
Bus Width 32-bit
Real Clock 33 MHz
Effective Clock 33 MHz
Bandwidth 133 MB/s

If you watch the stdout when the system boots from the CD, it should show you the hardware it autodetects - see if you can spot your drive in there. If Slack does find it, make sure you remember (write down) what device it sees it as - usually /dev/hdb for the primary slave drive. Also, don't forget to specify that device when you run cfdisk - by default, cfdisk will use your primary master drive (hda). If you have 2 drives in the system, try something like "cfdisk hdb" and see if that works (unless you have SATA, in which case the device nomenclature is different.)

For a pretty good explanation (list) of Linux devices, look here:
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices.txt


I've never had Slackware not detect a drive unless it was bad, going back to version 1.2 (I think) on 4 floppies :)

ipartitoned my hdb3 with qt_parted. made three partitons
hdb1 boot @ 32meg's
hdb2 swap @ 512 megs
hdb3 main roo @ rest of disk. Now how to i know it its reading the swap? Cause everythings installed now.

use the "top" command (no quotes) to view all running procs, uptime, used memory, etc.

also im having network problems, i made another post about it, it doesent outa select my PCI card. (ethernet NIC). The control panel doesnt really have an option in network's.

It doesn't automatically bring your network interface online? What's the error?

What window manager are you using? KDE? Gnome? Blackbox? WindowMaker?

All the networking stuff can be done via "netconfig" as far as specifying the IP, netmask, name servers, etc.

Also try (as root) "ifconfig eth0 up" (no quotes) and see if that does anything. You might want to check your dmesg to make sure your NIC is recognized, or if there are any issues with it (can't load driver, etc.).

If you do "ifconfig" all by itself it will display the current network configuration for all available (up) NICs.

thank you, i use KDE, and have DHCP, and i know all that lil stuff. thanks man, any more to say im here.

It would help if you replied to the correct post, instead of cross-posting.

Since I don't know your level of experience with Linux, it's a little difficult for me to guess what you don't know/already know.

What *exactly* is the problem? If you're receiving an error, please post it here so we can figure out what's happening. If you can't post it, can you provide any additional details about the problem that may better help us understand what's happening?