Hey Lao Yu said : > Hi Antonios, > > you are very helpful. I changed the hex command to fat32 (code b if I > remember well) and that error message disappeared. > > Sorry to say, I get another "command not found" from 'sudo /sbin/lilo > ...' Strange enough, the other 'sudo' commands like 'sudo fdisk' and > 'sudo mount' work well. Could it be that there's a problem with the > supposed location of the command "lilo". A file search on my disk didn't > give me any results.
you probably have to install it. Normally computers which come with grub as the boot loader dont need lilo. Just install it with the standard tool you use to install stuff in your system but be carefull that grub doesnt get uninstalled ( i have no clue about fedora) > > I hope you're not tired yet :-) > no not yet :) happy to help a > Best wishes > Jurgen > > > On Jun 23, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Antonios Galanopoulos wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> >> Lao Yu said : >>> Hi, >>> >>> thanks for the reply. >>> >>> On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Antonios Galanopoulos wrote: >>> >>>>> The access to archived messages b monthly files is a bit >>>>> troublesome... >>>> There is a solition for this. If you search using the form in this >>>> page... >>>> >>>> http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/wiki/Support >>> >>> great, thanks a lot - I will have a look after clicking 'send' :-) >> >> It wasn't very clear from the text on the page. Now i edited it a bit >> and >> hopefully is easier to understand. :) >> >> >>> >>>> Again i think you have no sudo command. Maybe I am wrong. >>> >>> sudo fdisk works... but it is true, I ran several times 'into a wall' >>> with sudo commands in Fedora because the root commands work somehow >>> different. >> No idea about it... >> >>> >>> >>>>> Try the above and let us know how it goes! >>> >>> I proceeded - however I set the partition #1 to 2000M. The >>> instructions >>> on the website say to adjust the 800MB example if one is using the >>> liveDVD ISO - I want to use that one so I set the size a bit larger. >>> >> >>> After the format command 'mkfs.vft -n puredyne -F 16 /dev/sdb1 I get >>> the >>> message >>> >>> WARNING: Not enough clusters for 16 bit FAT! The filesystem will be >>> misinterpreted as having 12 bit FAT without mount option "fat=16". >> >> maybe you should try FAT32 >> >> i thing is should work >> >> >>> >>> And here I'm stuck again. I don't know if it is 'just a warning', for >>> one it says there won't be a mount option and (2) the application >>> doesn't offer the choice to proceed but quits with 'mkfs.vfat: Too >>> few >>> blocks for viable file system. >>> >>> Best >>> Jurgen >>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> [email protected] >>> irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne >>> >> | >> |'`'. .''. .. >> | ' .' '. .` '. >> |-----`.----.'------- '------------. >> | '..' `. ' >> | `..' >> | >> >> --- >> [email protected] >> irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > | |'`'. .''. .. | ' .' '. .` '. |-----`.----.'------- '------------. | '..' `. ' | `..' | --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
