recover from a bad F16 install

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On 3/17/2012 9:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 03/18/2012 12:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>>>
>>> Though I appreciate the suggestion, I can't get any further progress once
>>> I do the
>>> install to hard drive option ... its does the same "No usable disks"
>>> message (and
>>> therefore no option to try anything).
>>
>> I don't think I ever suggested doing an install to hard drive....
>>
>> I was suggesting you check out the disk partitions using something like
>> parted to see
>> how things are set up.  Did you do that?
>>
>
> Ed:
>
> Oh, I did misread you and I apologize. Since I had never used a Live CD, I
> jumped to the faulty conclusion that its install to hard disk was different
> than the installation DVD.
>
> PartedMagic was the one option I asked about in my original email and it
> looks like that or the other two suggestions of sysresccd.org or fdisc will
> keep me busy tomorrow. I don't see parted when I did a which so I figured it
> was PartedMagic. I just tried as root on my working system and see it (saved
> myself an email about how I have to be root see it). As the memtest86 is
> going to go for a long time, I was under the impression that the LiveCD user
> doesn't have "root" access to munge with the hard drives et al ... am I
> mistaken?

Odd, `parted` has been included on every Fedora LiveCD I've ever used.

To get root on a LiveCD just open a terminal and run `su -`, no
password required.

> One good thing is I finally have a Live CD image that works. Every other
> time I've tried to create one it has been a horrible failure.
>
> Paul

-T.C.