Hey everybody, I'm mainly a windblows user, but I want to switch to linux. A friend of mine gave me a copy of Slackware Linux 10.1. I have an old box that I was gonna give away eventually, so I'm attempting the installation onto it. Anywho, fistoff, I'm having problems with the partition for linux. whenever I attempt to give the command " fdisk /dev/hda " I get a message "unable to open /dev/hda" any ideas?

btw - cfdisk won't work for some reason...I'm going to fiddle with the HDD jumper settings to see if that is the case, and then I'll get back. this window will be kept open and refreshed often, I would appreciate any and all help to get me up and running ASAP