From: "Alex Neuman van der Hans" <alex at nkpanama dot com>

> Remember, the L in DSL is for Linux. It should be /dev/sda for the disk 
> and /dev/sda1 for the first partition - unless it's been formatted 
> (syslinux style, I believe) as a BGF (big-giant-floppy); in that case 
> /dev/sda is the disk *and* the partition. If it's a newer kernel I think 
> the device will be /dev/uba instead of sda.

<homersimpson>
Doh!
</homersimpson>