Ubuntu 8.04.2, just installed, doesn't allow ... To Matt and mks.

[Matthew Flaschen]

David MacClement wrote:
> Thanks, Matt (and others); here's my two tries (copy-n-paste from terminal):
> ----- begin -----
> davd at davd-laptop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
> Error: Could not stat device /dev/sda - No such file or directory.
> Retry/Cancel? c
> davd at davd-laptop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda1 print
> Error: Could not stat device /dev/sda1 - No such file or directory
> ----- end -----
> 
> I think this means there's nothing called sda in my FileSystem's dev
> folder, and looking in it, that is so.
> I also noticed that there are a whole lot of block-devices and
> character-devices, all with zero bytes; including: hda, hda1, hda2, hda5.

That's strange.  I thought hda was universally replaced with sda by now.
 Do:

sudo parted /dev/hda print

Matt Flaschen