Everyone,
I purchased a used (refurbished) Dell Optiplex 755 that came with Windows 7 installed. I am trying to install Fedora 20, but when I get to the "Installation Destination" screen the fedora installer is not finding any "Local Standard Discs", which means I have been unable to start any installation.
The system boots to Windows without any problem. I was planning on overwriting the disc and getting rid of the windows product entirely. I have checked sum the installation disc, and have even created a second Fedora 20 installation disc and have the same problem.
Sure would appreciate some guidance from someone on the list that has solved a similar or same problem.
Thanks,
Greg Ennis
On 06/26/2014 04:47 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
The system boots to Windows without any problem. I was planning on overwriting the disc and getting rid of the windows product entirely. I have checked sum the installation disc, and have even created a second Fedora 20 installation disc and have the same problem.
Sure would appreciate some guidance from someone on the list that has solved a similar or same problem.
Boot from a Live USB/CD/DVD and use its partitioning software to delete all partitions from the hard drive. (If there's no GUI software, you can always use fdisk in a terminal.) Then, boot from the installation media and see if it finds the drive.
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:11:01 -0700
On 06/26/2014 04:47 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
The system boots to Windows without any problem. I was planning on overwriting the disc and getting rid of the windows product entirely. I have checked sum the installation disc, and have even created a second Fedora 20 installation disc and have the same problem.
Sure would appreciate some guidance from someone on the list that has solved a similar or same problem.
Boot from a Live USB/CD/DVD and use its partitioning software to delete all partitions from the hard drive. (If there's no GUI software, you can always use fdisk in a terminal.) Then, boot from the installation media and see if it finds the drive.
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Jeff,
Thanks very much.
I had an F19 live CD, and it did recognize the disc. I was able to remove the partition, with the 'disk' software, but I could not get the F20 install DVD to recognize it until I went back into the Live F19 and formatted the partition. After this F20 recognized the partition and I could proceed.
Do you have any comments what was happening as to why F20 did not recognize it in the beginning.
Greg
Le jeudi 26 juin 2014 à 20:58 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis a écrit : Hi,
I used to have a weird behavior, with Fedora live install, on some machines (Slightly old Dell for example) on USB stick, if I generate it with the fedora tool I can't see any space on the Disk. On the same laptop if I generate the live USB stick with Lili it works perfectly. I don't know what is the issue but I usually have to play with this two softwares to generate Fedora USB keys.
Best regards, Alexis.
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:11:01 -0700
On 06/26/2014 04:47 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
The system boots to Windows without any problem. I was planning on overwriting the disc and getting rid of the windows product entirely. I have checked sum the installation disc, and have even created a second Fedora 20 installation disc and have the same problem.
Sure would appreciate some guidance from someone on the list that has solved a similar or same problem.
Boot from a Live USB/CD/DVD and use its partitioning software to delete all partitions from the hard drive. (If there's no GUI software, you can always use fdisk in a terminal.) Then, boot from the installation media and see if it finds the drive.
Jeff,
Thanks very much.
I had an F19 live CD, and it did recognize the disc. I was able to remove the partition, with the 'disk' software, but I could not get the F20 install DVD to recognize it until I went back into the Live F19 and formatted the partition. After this F20 recognized the partition and I could proceed.
Do you have any comments what was happening as to why F20 did not recognize it in the beginning.
Greg
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On 27/06/14 17:56, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/26/2014 06:58 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Jeff,
Thanks very much.
No problem, but my name is Joe, not Jeff. Yes, I know why you got it wrong, but that doesn't mean that I don't like having my name mangled.
Joe: I get called "Ralph" or "Rolph" or "Rolphe" or "Ross" or ..., far more often than I get called "Rolf". (Roughly 95% --- 5%). I have learned to live with it. (Ah, the *mellowness* that comes with advancing years!)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 06/27/14 16:34, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 27/06/14 17:56, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/26/2014 06:58 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Jeff,
Thanks very much.
No problem, but my name is Joe, not Jeff. Yes, I know why you got it wrong, but that doesn't mean that I don't like having my name mangled.
Joe: I get called "Ralph" or "Rolph" or "Rolphe" or "Ross" or ..., far more often than I get called "Rolf". (Roughly 95% --- 5%). I have learned to live with it. (Ah, the *mellowness* that comes with advancing years!)
Now that I re-read it..... "that doesn't mean that I don't like having my name mangled" reduces to "I like having my name mangled". :-)
Such as "just because I didn't want any ice cream doesn't mean I don't like ice cream."
FWIW, I answer to "Ed", "Edward", "Eddie", "Edy" (Don't ask), "エド", "爱德华", and "Hey You".
Sorry for the OT'ness. Just thought this rather amusing.
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