On 3/17/2012 8:50 PM, Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 18:40 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
I now have a machine that is "a brick". There is no operating system
on it as that got destroyed and any attempts to do a fresh install
come back with "No usable disks have been found" and I can't make any
progress.
Is that at a stage where you're asked whether to use whole discs, free
space on a disc, etc., or before that sort of question.
I ask because people often get caught at this stage. "Free space" is
unpartitioned space on a drive, not an unused partition.
If the problem is not that, or before then, chances are that you can
CTRL+ALT+F (one of the function keys, try one until you get to a shell).
Where you could run partitioning software from the command line. If you
simply want to make a whole disc blank for the install to use the whole
thing, you could use something like fdisc to install an empty partition
table to the drive.
Tim:
Thanks for reply.
It asks me for language, then keyboard, then whether I want a basic
install or whatever the other option is. I select basic and it goes to
"examine the system" (I can't remember the exact thing it says it
examines) and that's when I get the "No usable disks".
As I can get to bash shell via the trouble shooting option, let me do
some research on fdisc and see what's there
Paul
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