No such file or directory

hi folks need help here =)

I tried to partition CF card (/dev/sdb1), with fdisk or cfdisk with live CD of Knoppix, DSL-N and UBUNTU. I was able to create both partition FAT 16 and LINUX (/dev/sdb1p1 and /dev/sdb1p2). But when write the partitions, it say successfully wrote the table but unable to re-read the table. will display the table after reboot, something like that.

but when you try to format either /dev/sdb1p1 and /dev/sdb1p2 it always say No such file or directory, even after reboot.

I am a newbie w/ linux, so any help will be appreciated. Thanks

/dev/sdb1p1? What kind of system are you using to do this?

Heh, that is odd. It should be more like /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2, as sdb is the hard disk ( CF ) sdb1 would be partition 1 ( fat16 ) and sdb2 would be partition 2 ( ext2 ). Well under a sane system anyway.

well, I use Knoppix 5.0 , DSL-N, UBUNTU they all live CD..

The CF itself appear as /dev/sdb1

and after partitioning with cfdisk or fdisk, when you look at the table there are 2 partition /dev/sdb1p1 and sdb1p2

I did this multiple times, it always ended up the same thing.

any better way doing this partition? I welcome any suggestion.. (I dont have any linux system, although I am thinking dual operating system for my laptop but I have to search which linux and how to install, any suggestion?)

The CF should appear as /dev/sdb. You are partitioning a partition within a partition, which, essentially is, insane.

cfdisk /dev/sdb

Partition that, and you will end up with /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2.