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 -- ======================================================================= filibuster, n.: Throwing your wait around. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
