How to tell what version of system? (Solved)

[rusty377]

how do you do root terminal? I misunderstood.

[TerryN]

I just edited previous message with question about kde.

I downloaded the latest 32bit pclinuxos but always get kde daemon failed when trying to run  as live cd. Didn't dig too deep...

If it is this error http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,112936.msg969564.html#msg969564 you can ignore it

Terry.

[TerryN]

how do you do root terminal? I misunderstood.

Open an ordinary terminal and type:

Code: [Select]

supress return and then enter your root password.

Or you may find a specific entry in PC->More Applications->Terminals

Terry.

[YouCanToo]

how do you do root terminal? I misunderstood.

Open a terminal window and type 'su' and then enter your root password.  At the prompt enter fdisk -l (this is fdisk space - lower case L)  For example:

[dwmoar@laptop ~]$ su
Password:
[root@laptop dwmoar]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 31.5 GB, 31487999488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3828 cylinders, total 61499999 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    30716279    15358108+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2        30716280    61496819    15390270    5  Extended
/dev/sda5        30716343    34989569     2136613+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6        34989633    61496819    13253593+  83  Linux
[root@laptop dwmoar]#

[YouCanToo]

how do you do root terminal? I misunderstood.

Open an ordinary terminal and type:

Code: [Select]

supress return and then enter your root password.

Or you may find a specific entry in PC->More Applications->Terminals

Terry.

Dang, you posted when I was pressing post...   Oh well next time I will be faster....

[rusty377]

Thanks gentlefolks :0)

I was typing sudo instead of su- it has been a while since I thought pclinuxos needed any maintenance.

Here is result

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcab10bee

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63   307982114   153991026    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2       307982115   390716864    41367375    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       307982178   390716864    41367343+  83  Linux

[rusty377]

Any way to update kde to 4.10 from 4.6.5 as an experiment since I have an issue of partitioning? Kernel was easy...

[Ramchu]

Any way to update kde to 4.10 from 4.6.5 as an experiment since I have an issue of partitioning? Kernel was easy...

Short answer is - NO - It would only break your install.
The safest thing for you to do is save the files that you want to keep
to a usb device, cd, or where ever - then do a new install

[7272andy]

I'm afraid I agree with Ramchu; you are unlikely to be able to upgrade cleanly from your current position, which points to a re-installation.

Looking at the disk info you've provided, it appears that you have a Windows installation or partition on sda1 an extended partition at sda2 and PCLinuxOS installed into the sda5 extended partition.

Is the first partition a Windows installation or does it contain your data? If it's a data partition you could ensure that any data you wish to keep is copied there before you re-install

[rusty377]

I did a backup. Now, can I use the gui disk partition (running in memory) to reformat and partition more intelligently before reinstalling from dvd?
Including to delete the running os- or do I have to use windows to partition the linux part?

[agmg]

You can re-partition your hard drive during installation.
I'll refer you to an article in our magazine:

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201301/page01.html

Go to the section "Step by step installation"

[7272andy]

if you select Custom Disk Partitioning from the installer, the partitioning tool will be started (DiskDrake). You can use this to delete, create and otherwise edit your partitions before proceeding.
Don't forget to assign the relevant mount points in the tool (I'm assuming / and /home)

EDIT
The magazine article is a good place to start - Cheers agmg

[rusty377]

Well,

I did custom partition and have windows installed and created /,swap,/home partitions on remaining hard drive, then did install per step by step plan and everything went fine....until.... after reboot get the following error message

Grub loading  stage1.5.
Grub loading, please wait....
Error 17


Tried multiple reboot and nothing different- any ideas?

[agmg]

1. Boot from LiveCD again.
2. Open a terminal and type su (root)
3. Post the output of fdisk -l

Meanwhile I think you should consider opening a new topic...

[rusty377]

Moving to hardware installation titled "grub error 17"