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Post 302189062 by Methal on Friday 25th of April 2008 01:07:46 AM
04-25-2008
Lots of questions about linux.
I am about 2 months new to Linux, and have only limited experience with PCLinuxOS, (kde) and Redhat.
I am installing the latest version of PClinuxOS on my wife's PC right now but running into a problem I dont understand. I have never seen it before so i thought i'd ask how I can get around it.
When I get into Root on live CD and double click on the "install PCLinuxOS" icon it goes through the first 2 screens letting me select either a USB HD, or a Normal Hard Drive (ide, sata) (I have 2 sata harddrives in there with windows XP on them, when I installed windows xp i partitioned them to be one 80gig HD.) When I click next after selecting "normal Hard Drive" it says "I can not find room for installing" and quits.
when I click on my computer and go into storage media It lists two hard drives a labeled "/" and the other labeled "80g media" both when high lighted say "unmounted hard disk volume" when i right click and try to mount them it says "Mount: is already mounted, or is busy" I have no idea what the "/" hard drive is.
The only other thing I know how to do is go into the control center, select hardware, then select look at and configure hardware, when I select one of two hard drives "sda" or sdb" and click "run configuration tool" I get the following error:
"I cannot read the partition table of device mapper/nvidia_egbdcjba, it's too corrupted for me
I can try to go on , erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be lost) THe other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table. (the error is illegal division by zero.) Do you agree to lose all the partitions?"
Clicking yes brings up the familiar partitioning tool. however It does not show the normal blue NTFS partition, or any partition at all. It just says please click on a partition, but does not show the bar to click on....
SO there it is in all its longness.
Anyone have any idea what I am saying? hehe.
I am installing the latest version of PClinuxOS on my wife's PC right now but running into a problem I dont understand. I have never seen it before so i thought i'd ask how I can get around it.
When I get into Root on live CD and double click on the "install PCLinuxOS" icon it goes through the first 2 screens letting me select either a USB HD, or a Normal Hard Drive (ide, sata) (I have 2 sata harddrives in there with windows XP on them, when I installed windows xp i partitioned them to be one 80gig HD.) When I click next after selecting "normal Hard Drive" it says "I can not find room for installing" and quits.
when I click on my computer and go into storage media It lists two hard drives a labeled "/" and the other labeled "80g media" both when high lighted say "unmounted hard disk volume" when i right click and try to mount them it says "Mount: is already mounted, or is busy" I have no idea what the "/" hard drive is.
The only other thing I know how to do is go into the control center, select hardware, then select look at and configure hardware, when I select one of two hard drives "sda" or sdb" and click "run configuration tool" I get the following error:
"I cannot read the partition table of device mapper/nvidia_egbdcjba, it's too corrupted for me
I can try to go on , erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be lost) THe other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table. (the error is illegal division by zero.) Do you agree to lose all the partitions?"Clicking yes brings up the familiar partitioning tool. however It does not show the normal blue NTFS partition, or any partition at all. It just says please click on a partition, but does not show the bar to click on....
SO there it is in all its longness.
Anyone have any idea what I am saying? hehe.
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FDISK(8) BSD System Manager's Manual FDISK(8) NAME
acorn-fdisk -- partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines SYNOPSIS
acorn-fdisk -h | --help | -v | --version acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -l | --list [device ...] acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -s | --size partition acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] [device] DESCRIPTION
The acorn-fdisk utility allows one to display or interactively edit partition tables for Acorn/RISC OS machines in various formats. Using the PC/BIOS format, standard IBM PC (i386) partition tables can also be accessed. When no optional device is given, it defaults to /dev/hda or /dev/sda. The options are as follows: -h | --help Display a short usage and exit immediately. -l | --list Display the partition table(s) of all devices. -s | --size Display the size of partition. -t | --type Select the partitioning scheme to use. Valid schemes are: EESOX Eesox SCSI on the Acorn machines. ICSIDEFS ICS IDE. Filecore/Linux Linux on Filecore. This uses the non-ADFS descriptor to point to the start of the disc to be partitioned. The first two sectors contain a partition table to identify the Linux partitions contained within. PC/BIOS PC/BIOS partitioning scheme. This consists of a partition table in the first sector of the disk which contains both CHS and LBA values for the partitions. There can be up to four entries in the primary partition table. One of these can be an extended partition containing up to four extra partitions. PowerTec PowerTec SCSI on the Acorn machines. Filecore/RISCiX RiscIX on Filecore. -v | --version Display the version of acorn-fdisk and exit immediately. If neither -l | --list or -s | --size are given, the partition table of the given device will be edited interactively. EXAMPLES
Display the default device's partition table on a PC: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS -l Display the PC partition table of /dev/sda: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --list /dev/sda Display the size in blocks of the partition /dev/sda1: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --size /dev/sda1 Edit the MBR partition table interactively: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS Display the partition table of an MBR backed up to a file: acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -l mbrdump.bin Display the size of the first partition on a device where the MBR would be restored from the backup file mbrdump.bin: acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -s mbrdump.bin1 AUTHORS
arm-fdisk was written by Russell King <rmk@arm.uk.linux.org> based on util-linux fdisk, which was written at least partially by A. V. Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>. This manual page was written for the Debian system by Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> but may be used by others. BSD
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