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From: Daniel Armyr <daniel.armyr@××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDD Detection
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:19:59
Message-Id: 20040615072032.3853ab48@beech.glades.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDD Detection by Nathaniel McCallum
1 Yes:
2 * sys-apps/util-linux-2.12-r4
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4 Do note however that I am running it as a regular user with sudo. This means that fdisk is not in the path. That is the reason it doesn't work, but I would still want to be able to use ith without adding fdisk to the path.
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6 --Daniel Armyr
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8 On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:54:19 -0400 Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@g.o> wrote:
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10 > Interesting, do you have util-linux installed?
11 >
12 > Nathaniel
13 > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 16:22, Daniel Armyr wrote:
14 > > cuardin@beech:~;)sudo ./detect_devices.py
15 > > Detecting devices...
16 > >
17 > > Your devices are detected by this script as:
18 > > /dev/hda
19 > > /dev/sr0
20 > >
21 > > Fdisk detected your devices as:
22 > > sh: line 1: fdisk: command not found
23 > >
24 > > Compare the two lists above with your real system devices (not partitions).
25 > > Ideally, the two lists should be the same. If the lists are missing any
26 > > devices or have extra devices, please email me a copy of the output of this
27 > > and of 'cat /proc/partitions' to my address npmccallum@g.o
28 > >
29 > > cuardin@beech:~;)
30 > >
31 > >
32 > > > I need as many people as possible to test (for the Gentoo installer
33 > > > project) the following python script on your system:
34 > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~npmccallum/detect_devices.py This is especially
35 > > > important if you have scsi, hardware raid, or otherwise funky setups.
36 > > >
37 > >
38 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] HDD Detection Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@g.o>