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Just got a new server and need to make partitions...
Writing:
fdisk /dev/hda
will give the message "will not be able to write to the partition table" and
fdisk /dev/sda
dosnt work for some reason... (I got SCSI disk)
ah gentoo the next best thing since windoze.
sorry but i have no clue what kernel they use.
if you boot with their live cd and it can't find your drives, my assumption is you should go to www.gentoo.org and post on their forum, unless someone else here has a clue.
Look at the dmesg output, ie run "dmesg | less" or "dmesg | more" from a command prompt, and see if the kernel is seeing and intializing your SCSI controller and drives. If it's not then the kernel most likely doesn't have the right drivers for the SCSI card compiled into it. So you'd need a kernel that does or else provide them as modules.
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