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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions trouble shooting linux Post 302405663 by laya on Friday 19th of March 2010 12:16:53 PM
Old 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(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/. util-linux January 2015 ADDPART(8)
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