03-19-2010
trouble shooting linux
hello this is laya. I need some help regarding linx installation and also trouble shooting.
i installed linux mandriva 2009 in my school months ago and now it says password expired and doesnt start up. So i was wondering if there could be any default password for linux versions??? and next is that i am unable to insall linux on a machine which is a dell machine. I am unable to get a mesage which asks press F1 or ... to start boot from CD .Dell machines have F10,F2,del keys to start booting from CD but i am unable to..i have reset the CD/DVD drive options as the 1st prority too.Can i have any solutions to these?
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addpart
ADDPART(8) System Administration ADDPART(8)
NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
SYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length
DESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
ioctl.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
PARAMETERS
device The disk device.
partition
The partition number.
start The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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