> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: JD <jd1...@gmail.com <mailto:jd1...@gmail.com>> >> To: Community support for Fedora users >> <users@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> >> 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 <vvma...@gmail.com> > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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.
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