Re: Can one now help?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sunday, July 18, 2010 05:09:23 pm Parshwa Murdia did opine:

> >    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >    
> >>    From: JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >>    To: Community support for Fedora users
> >>    <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>    <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010
> >>    14:31:48 -0700
> >>    Subject: Re: Can one now help?
> > 
> > Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it.
> > So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up.
> > in desktop, open a terminal:
> > Click Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal
> > 
> > in the shell terminal, mount your fedora partition:
> > su -
> > No password needed. just press enter.
> > mkdir /mydisk
> > mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk
> > 
> > where X is the drive letter and N is the partition number (starts at
> > 1) where you installed fedora.
> > 
> > Now cd to your /etc and edit fstab and fix the problem.
> > 
> > If you do not know how to do that, post the contents of your fstab to
> > this list
> > and I am certain someone will tell you what is wrong.
> 
> one things is that when you say sdXN, X is the drive letter means what
> drive letter is give to the linux partition? in windows if i see, its H
> so it should be like sdH9?? in the line:
> 
> mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk
> 
> but the error i get is:
> *
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type* (which comes in the
> terminal)
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> > From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:50:22 +0100
> > Subject: Re: Can one now help?
> 
> > On Sunday, July 18, 2010 15:39:43 Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> You are right not to touch the install icon again. You do not want to
> 
> > install
> > the system all over again. Instead, once you have booted the Live CD
> > and have
> > the desktop show up, you should do several things.
> > 
> > First open the terminal (find it in the menus, its exact position
> > depends on
> > KDE/Gnome Live CD, and I don't know which one you are using).
> 
> Yes, i am using Gnome and the live CD of fedora 11.
> 
> > Then you need to find out which partition is the root partition of
> > your installed Fedora. You do not want to confuse that to your
> > *current* root partition which is on the Live CD. Hard disk
> > partitions in Fedora are named sda1, sda2, ... for the master hd on
> > the primary IDE controller, sdb1, sdb2, ... for the slave hd on the
> > primary IDE, then sdc1/2/... and sdd1/2/... for the master and slave
> > on the secondary IDE, etc. Of course, if
> > you have a SATA drive this may be different. If you have a dual-boot
> > configuration (ie. Windows), then it typically takes sda1 for Windows
> > drive C:,
> > sda2 for windows drive D: (if you have one, not counting the CD/DVD
> > drive) and
> > so on, while Fedora partitions go after those.
> 
> yes, its sata harddisk i think and dual booted with windows. in windows
> i have partitions for C, D, E, F (four drives).
> 
> > I am writing all this to show you that partition layout depends a lot
> > on your
> > hardware and software configuration, and no one on this list can guess
> > it for
> > you --- you have to find it out yourself for your particular machine.
> > One way
> > to do it is to use fstab:
> > 
> > (1) once in the terminal, type "su -" to become root (without quotes)
> > (2) type "fdisk -l /dev/sda"
> > (3) fdisk will list the partition table of your hard disk --- look
> > carefully
> > on that list, and try to figure out which partition is the Linux root
> > partition. If you cannot guess it yourself, post the partition table
> > layout to
> > us so we can help you with guessing.
> 
> the result of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" is as follows:
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1        5737    46082421    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2            5738       30400   198105547+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5            5738        9561    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda6            9562       13385    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda7           13386       15935    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda8   *       15936       15961      204799+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda9           15961       28596   101487615+  8e  Linux LVM
> 
> I don't know why there is no entry for sda3 and sda4. I guess the linux
> root partition to be sda8? or it should be sda9?
> 
> > After you have determined which partition is the Fedora root (in what
> > follows
> > I will assume that it is /dev/sda2, while you should substitute the
> > relevant
> > /dev/sd?? instead), you want to mount it somewhere --- typically to
> > /mnt directory of your running LiveCD Fedora. This is done as
> > follows:
> > 
> > (1) create a new directory in /mnt, by typing "mkdir /mnt/oldfedora"
> > (2) mount the partition to that directory by typing
> > "mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/oldfedora" (and don't forget to substitute
> > /dev/sda2 with whatever is relevant for your case)
> 
> mounting this (for both sda8 and sda9), it shows me the error:
> *
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm2pv'* (in the terminal)
> 
> and once:
> *
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type* (in the terminal)
> 
> so again it is not getting either mounted.

This is 100% correct.  Linux can understand quite a few file system 
architectures, so you need to include a '-t filesystemname' in your mount 
command line.  Man mount.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [EPEL Devel]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux