Help with Linux.

[fwww]

I have installed Slackware.org's ZipSlack to a new partition (L:) and lalala I'm fine up to now.

But I've been asked to configure the kernel so that it boots from the Linux Partition. Now I know how to do this, but I don't. I've been asked to give the drive in the form of /dev/XXXX (a few of the examples being /dev/sbd1, /dev/hdd1 ect)

I need to know how to get this dev/XXX shit.

Can anybody help me?

thanks in advance.

[henke37]

For (e)ide:
Bus is a for 1m, b for 1s and so on
hd<bus#><partion#>

For scic:
Bus is the scuisci bus number, a=1 and so on.
sd<bus#><partion#>

Partion is the partion on the drive, 1:th is a and so on.

A request please do not use this info if you had to ask for it. If you mess up your hd is waste.

[Ravens-Grin]

One thing, for Linux the partition should not be a windows logical drive. Also, saying that you have drives up to L:\, there's a good possibility that you are going to have to review your partitioning scheme on the computer. On a single drive, you can only have 5 maximum partitions (4 primary + 1 extended) because of lack of insight from the creators of MS-DOS. So most likely you are using all of this. Second of all, if you want to experiment with Linux, it is actually best to do it in two scenarios:
a) On an old computer that can be thrown away
b) From a live cd that will not mess with your hard drive

If you don't do these, then there is a high chance you'll delete all of information for windows, and trust me it is quite easy to do.. for instance the following
"mkswap /dev//hda4" will create a swap partition on the 4th primary partition on the hard drive, but if you accidently types in hda1 instead, your files for windows will be completely erased. There are other commands that are even more similar in the variations and a whitespace will actually cause your hard drive to be wiped out, but I forgot those at the moment... So follow those two steps that I outlined, or else you can really fuck up your computer.