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
