Re: Can one now help?

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  On 07/18/2010 01:24 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
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>            Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700
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>     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:
Of course.

>
> mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk
I seriously doubt you did it right.
Mounting a fedora partition using fedora live does not
require you to enter a type.

As root:

mount /dev/sda8 /mydisk

would have mounted your fedora disk partition.

>
> but the error i get is:
> *
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type* (which comes in the terminal)
>
>
You did something wrong, and you do  not tell us what command you 
entered along with the arguments.


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>     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?
>

How many extended partitions do you have?
Legacy partitions are a total of 4, and can be extended
by having an extended partition, within which you can create 4 partitions.

So please explain how you created these partitions?

>     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.
I repeat,
post the verbatim command you entered.

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