[Fedora-livecd-list] Argh! Disappearing devices

I've been pretty successful with the live CD part so far but I am struggling with make a compact flash card bootable. My biggest problem right now is some sort of process in Fedora Core 4 is managing whether or not /dev/hdd1 and /dev/hdd2 exist. I have an IDE/CF adapter card installed and I have partitioned the CF card into two partitions with Linux file systems. However whenever I try to make an ext file system on the CF card, I get errors about the devices not existing. I am not really familiar with udev and hal....is there a way to configure the system to NOT try to automatically create/delete /dev entries for /dev/hdd? Thanks, Darren Humphrey