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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: , Maybe you missed it....
I'm running ubuntu 11.10

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:

> What live CD are you running? I thought someone had provided you with an
> ubuntu CD. lshw has been on every ubuntu disk since before dirt. if you
> were unable to run lshw, then obviously there would be no lshw.txt to look
> at.
>
> Several emails ago, you said you did:
>
> 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$
>>
>
> That produced a file lshw on your desktop and clearly lshw WAS present. I
> am guessing you rebooted the CD and so lost the lshw.txt file and you would
> have to reproduce it before trying to look at it. Now I have no clue why
> you tried to run something called print when I clearly told you to double
> click the file. Again, my guess is that you were just poking in the dark
> because you had rebooted and did not see the file on your desktop.
>
> OK, so do this, open a terminal and type:
>
>> cd ~/Desktop
>> sudo lshw -short -C storage > lshw.txt
>> sudo lshw -short -C disk >> lshw.txt
>> sudo lshw -short -C volume >> lshw.txt
>> cat lshw.txt
>>
> and write it all down so you can relay that.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> 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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