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I have 486 PC with an adaptec SCSI-2 hard disk, which I would like to
partition into two parts for DOS and linux, respectively.

I used DOS fdisk to first partition the hard disk into one DOS primary
partition (for DOS) and second partition as extended partition
(intended for linux).

But when I boot linux I get messages about scsi0 not being found and
as proceed to login into linux as root and to format linux partition
with

fdisk /dev/sda2

it gives me the message about "can not open /dev/sda2", etc.

Can someone tell me what is a correct way of doing SCSI disk
partitioning for linux?

Or is there a linux.install.faq list that I can get help from?

Thanks!

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   fdisk /dev/sda2
         ^^^^^^^^^    
   it gives me the message about "can not open /dev/sda2", etc.

This is your problem.  Use fdisk on the drive not on a partition.  

  fdisk /dev/sda

I would also suggest using the Linux fdisk over DOS fdisk to create the Linux
partition.  I used Linux fdisk to get around DOS not letting me have more than
one primary partition.

Paul