Media vs /dev/sd1?

[Robert Hemus]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:22 +0000, jorg raskowski wrote:
> hi Bob,
> 
> Robert Hemus wrote:
>  > Gents & Susan if she's reading this,
>  > How do you correlate Media to /dev/hda or sda ?  I've run an fdisk to
>  > see what the size of the partitions are, but this changes from Media to
>  > the size of the fdisk command gives.  Then at the bottom of
>  > fdisk /dev/sdc there is a line "Partition table entries are not in disk
>  > order".  Where can I read about "Media" as opposed to /dev/?
> 
> -- what exactly are you trying to achieve?
> -- which OS is being used?
> 
> NB. take care when using 'fdisk', potentially dangerous command.
> 
> regards, jr.
I want to install another distro, Fedora 11, on one of my unused
partitions.  Yes, I know about fdisk, just the Media as opposed to /dev.
Thanks
Bob