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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: , Maybe you missed it....
lshw was not to be found. I even tried 'find lshw.txt /'

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:

> The text file lshw.txt should have been on your desktop. Just double
> click it to open it and see the contents. If you are doing email on that
> system, you can either copy the contents and paste them into the email, or
> add the files as an attachment to the email.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> nothing returned....
>> was I supposed to enter something besides what you told me? I tried:
>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ print lshw.txt
>> Error: no "print" mailcap rules found for type "text/plain"
>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ type lshw.txt
>> bash: type: lshw.txt: not found
>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$
>>
>> and got the results you see.... sorry for not kniowing what to do.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:
>>
>>> You did not finish reading the instructions. The goal was to make a
>>> file called lshw.txt containing the results. Are you saying the file was
>>> not created (not possible) or that it was empty (I am guessing you did not
>>> look) or that you saw no output on the screen (which is what would be
>>> expected)?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay buddy, I got a big nothing!
>>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ cd ~/Desktop
>>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo lshw -short -C storage > lshw.txt
>>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo lshw -short -C disk >> lshw.txt
>>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo lshw -short -C volume >> lshw.txt
>>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Try this Mike. Since you seem to be running on a live CD, you
>>>>> probably will not have the enter a password for the sudo. But enter the
>>>>> following commands
>>>>> cd ~/Desktop
>>>>> sudo lshw -short -C storage > lshw.txt
>>>>> sudo lshw -short -C disk >> lshw.txt
>>>>> sudo lshw -short -C volume >> lshw.txt
>>>>> and tell us what results you get (they will be in the file lshw.txt
>>>>> which will be on your desktop). If you need to move them to another
>>>>> machine for emailing, plug in a flash drive and copy the file to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
>>>>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It gives me nothing!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:11 AM, James Crawford <>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> su -
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -l Should return the partition table of "ALL"
>>>>>>> drives that are visible to your system that includes the drive you are
>>>>>>> booting from.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> blank line implies you are not running fdisk with root permissions.
>>>>>>> James C. yeah, same response. blank line On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM,
>>>>>>> Lisa Kachold <>**wrote: You have to be root
>>>>>>> to run fdisk -l # sudo fdisk -l On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Michael
>>>>>>> Havens <> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I mis spoke it is a new-used drive. I've had it a while. 'fdisk'
>>>>>>>>> returns
>>>>>>>>> with an empty set and 'fdisk -l' returns an empty set too. 'fdisk
>>>>>>>>> /dev/hda1' returns with 'no such file or directory'.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> How do I check my bios?
>>>>>>>>> As for the possibility of there being a cabling issue, I've opened
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> cabinet and reset the cables (unplugged and plugged back in) about
>>>>>>>>> 5 times
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold@obnosis.
>>>>>>>>> **com <>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fdisk -l
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Will list all the drives seen by the system.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If your drive is not there, check your cabling.
>>>>>>>>>> Check your bios to see if it's there.
>>>>>>>>>> If not there might be a power cable issue?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Michael Havens<
>>>>>>>>>> >wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> same response after I added the 'a'
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Stephen<>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Data drives are /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1 for first drive of first
>>>>>>>>>>>> partition increment a to b for 2nd drive and 1 to 2 for second
>>>>>>>>>>>> partition.
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Nov 18, 2011 4:29 PM, "Michael Havens"<>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I just installed a new hard drive and it isn't showing up
>>>>>>>>>>>>> What do
>>>>>>>>>>>>> you think is wrong? I tried mount /dev/hd1 /mnt/hd1 but the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> reply was
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'mount point .... does not exist'
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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