On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnew...@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. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
