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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700<br>
Subject: Re: Can one now help?<br></blockquote></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it.<br>
So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up.<br>
in desktop, open a terminal:<br>
Click Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal<br>
<br>
in the shell terminal, mount your fedora partition:<br>
su -<br>
No password needed. just press enter.<br>
mkdir /mydisk<br>
mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk<br>
<br>
where X is the drive letter and N is the partition number (starts at 1) where you installed fedora.<br>
<br>
Now cd to your /etc and edit fstab and fix the problem.<br>
<br>
If you do not know how to do that, post the contents of your fstab to this list<br>
and I am certain someone will tell you what is wrong.<br></blockquote><div><br>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:<br>
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mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk<br><br>but the error i get is:<br><b><br>mount: you must specify the filesystem type</b> (which comes in the terminal)<br><br><br>
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To: <a href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:50:22 +0100<br>Subject: Re: Can one now help?<br>On Sunday, July 18, 2010 15:39:43 Parshwa Murdia wrote: </blockquote>
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You are right not to touch the install icon again. You do not want to install<br>
the system all over again. Instead, once you have booted the Live CD and have<br>
the desktop show up, you should do several things.<br>
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First open the terminal (find it in the menus, its exact position depends on<br>
KDE/Gnome Live CD, and I don't know which one you are using).<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, i am using Gnome and the live CD of fedora 11.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Then you need to find out which partition is the root partition of your<br>
installed Fedora. You do not want to confuse that to your *current* root<br>
partition which is on the Live CD. Hard disk partitions in Fedora are named<br>
sda1, sda2, ... for the master hd on the primary IDE controller,<br>
sdb1, sdb2, ... for the slave hd on the primary IDE, then sdc1/2/... and<br>
sdd1/2/... for the master and slave on the secondary IDE, etc. Of course, if<br>
you have a SATA drive this may be different. If you have a dual-boot<br>
configuration (ie. Windows), then it typically takes sda1 for Windows drive C:,<br>
sda2 for windows drive D: (if you have one, not counting the CD/DVD drive) and<br>
so on, while Fedora partitions go after those.<br></blockquote><div><br>yes, its sata harddisk i think and dual booted with windows. in windows i have partitions for C, D, E, F (four drives).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I am writing all this to show you that partition layout depends a lot on your<br>
hardware and software configuration, and no one on this list can guess it for<br>
you --- you have to find it out yourself for your particular machine. One way<br>
to do it is to use fstab:<br>
<br>
(1) once in the terminal, type "su -" to become root (without quotes)<br>
(2) type "fdisk -l /dev/sda"<br>
(3) fdisk will list the partition table of your hard disk --- look carefully<br>
on that list, and try to figure out which partition is the Linux root<br>
partition. If you cannot guess it yourself, post the partition table layout to<br>
us so we can help you with guessing.<br></blockquote><div><br>the result of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" is as follows:<br><br>Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/sda1 1 5737 46082421 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>
/dev/sda2 5738 30400 198105547+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<br>/dev/sda5 5738 9561 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>/dev/sda6 9562 13385 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>/dev/sda7 13386 15935 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>
/dev/sda8 * 15936 15961 204799+ 83 Linux<br>/dev/sda9 15961 28596 101487615+ 8e Linux LVM<br><br>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?<br>
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After you have determined which partition is the Fedora root (in what follows<br>
I will assume that it is /dev/sda2, while you should substitute the relevant<br>
/dev/sd?? instead), you want to mount it somewhere --- typically to /mnt<br>
directory of your running LiveCD Fedora. This is done as follows:<br>
<br>
(1) create a new directory in /mnt, by typing "mkdir /mnt/oldfedora"<br>
(2) mount the partition to that directory by typing<br>
"mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/oldfedora" (and don't forget to substitute /dev/sda2<br>
with whatever is relevant for your case)<br></blockquote><div><br>mounting this (for both sda8 and sda9), it shows me the error:<br><b><br>mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm2pv'</b> (in the terminal)<br><br>and once:<br>
<b><br>mount: you must specify the filesystem type</b> (in the terminal)<br><br>so again it is not getting either mounted.<br></div></div></div></div>