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Are you sure the harddrive is /dev/hdd? That would usually show that you have four harddrives connected to your machine. The first harddrive is /dev/hda

the hdd is a 2gb one and i just booted up the DSL, went to bash like the wiki said. wrote cfdisk dev/hdd to make a pration like the wiki said and got that error.do i need to do someting else before trying to make a partion on the hdd ?

I think you misunderstand...or maybe i'm misunderstanding you.
"hdd" is not short for "hard disk"..."hd" is short for "hard disk", and the second "d" signifies that it is the fourth disk in a sequence of disks...hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd. So using the command "cfdisk /dev/hdd" will not work unless you are trying to cfdisk the fourth disk (which doesn't exist in most standard computers, so sometimes hdd is instead used for a cd or dvd drive). Your command most likely should be "cfdisk /dev/hda" or "cfdisk /dev/hdb"...or it could be "cfdisk /dev/sda" if you're working with a usb drive.

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1: also. how can i get SSH to autostart when the computer boots up ?

2: how do i set a name for the computer ? (i have a dhcp but i dont get onto the net with my dsl comp <.<)

3: where do i configure it's ip etc so it can connect to the net. EDIT: it's saying no supported network cards can be found. still there is 1 and it's old but working. and the others is brand new and working. how do i get DSL do find it ?

4: i cant mount my Floppy. when i try to run Mount.app nothing happens :/

anyone know ? :/

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