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On Mar 18, 2012 12:04 AM, "Paul Allen Newell" <<a href="mailto:pnewell@cs.cmu.edu">pnewell@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 3/17/2012 10:50 PM, Pete Travis wrote:<br>
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>> On Mar 17, 2012 11:37 PM, "T.C. Hollingsworth" <<a href="mailto:tchollingsworth@gmail.com">tchollingsworth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell <<a href="mailto:pnewell@cs.cmu.edu">pnewell@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > > On 3/17/2012 9:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:<br>
>> > >> On 03/18/2012 12:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:<br>
>> > >>><br>
>> > >>> Though I appreciate the suggestion, I can't get any further progress once<br>
>> > >>> I do the<br>
>> > >>> install to hard drive option ... its does the same "No usable disks"<br>
>> > >>> message (and<br>
>> > >>> therefore no option to try anything).<br>
>> > >><br>
>> > >> I don't think I ever suggested doing an install to hard drive....<br>
>> > >><br>
>> > >> I was suggesting you check out the disk partitions using something like<br>
>> > >> parted to see<br>
>> > >> how things are set up. Did you do that?<br>
>> > >><br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Ed:<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Oh, I did misread you and I apologize. Since I had never used a Live CD, I<br>
>> > > jumped to the faulty conclusion that its install to hard disk was different<br>
>> > > than the installation DVD.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > PartedMagic was the one option I asked about in my original email and it<br>
>> > > looks like that or the other two suggestions of <a href="http://sysresccd.org">sysresccd.org</a> or fdisc will<br>
>> > > keep me busy tomorrow. I don't see parted when I did a which so I figured it<br>
>> > > was PartedMagic. I just tried as root on my working system and see it (saved<br>
>> > > myself an email about how I have to be root see it). As the memtest86 is<br>
>> > > going to go for a long time, I was under the impression that the LiveCD user<br>
>> > > doesn't have "root" access to munge with the hard drives et al ... am I<br>
>> > > mistaken?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Odd, `parted` has been included on every Fedora LiveCD I've ever used.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > To get root on a LiveCD just open a terminal and run `su -`, no<br>
>> > password required.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > > One good thing is I finally have a Live CD image that works. Every other<br>
>> > > time I've tried to create one it has been a horrible failure.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Paul<br>
>> ><br>
>> > -T.C.<br>
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>> Hey Paul,<br>
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>> I've had anaconda fail to recognize drives due to leftover fake raid metadata, among other things. Try using dd to zero out the first few megs of the drive, assuming you don't need the existing partition table, and see if it helps.<br>
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>> `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=512 count=512`<br>
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> Pete:<br>
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> Thanks for reply. Tried your suggestion and no change to the message. I did confirm that the window says "Examining Devices" to clarify an earlier question that was asked.<br>
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> Am in process of downloading and creating CD of systemrescuecd ... but I won't try it until tomorrow as I am getting tired and know I will probably screw things up even worse if I get "too adventuresome in something I am not familiar with"<br>
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> Paul<br>
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<p>Worth a try...</p>
<p>Any extra USB storage to remove? </p>