From mike@boobaz.net Tue Jan 2 12:01:49 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id MAA49376 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:01:46 -0800 Received: from boobaz.net (c1056043-a.sttln1.wa.home.com [24.19.193.36]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA21473 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:01:45 -0800 Received: from c1056043-a (c1056043-a [24.19.193.36]) by boobaz.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f02K1ic26377 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:01:45 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:01:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mike X-Sender: mike@c1056043-a.sttln1.wa.home.com To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: fdisk dumps core In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I can't really help you, but the man page says to try cfdisk or sfdisk. The web page at http://students.washington.edu/linuxug currently doesn't exist. If you're looking for a list archive, look at: http://staff.washington.edu/hornung/linux/archive/ --------------------------- -=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=- On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 at 10:54, yeuhi abe wrote: |hi, | I did `fdisk /dev/hdb` where hdb is a brand new harddrive. fdisk gave |me a little message about how the disk had no known disk labels and that |it would create labels for the disk but not actually write to the disk |until i was done. Then, fdisk dumped core. There is nothing wrong with |the harddrive cus i was able to set up a partition table with mandrake |diskdrake ( and then read it with fdisk!!) Any one experience anything |similar to this? BTW, im using fdisk version 2.1h. | |yeuhi | |p.s. Is the webpage for this list, http://students.washington.edu/linuxug |? /bc the link gives me and error about the .htaccess file. | .