Re: recover from a bad F16 install

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On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 21:45 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: 
> 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
> 
> 

The program is really fdisk
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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