Trying to rescue a friend's computer. Put Ubuntu 12.10 on a Flash drive, changed the boot order, and fired it up; no problem. But now that I'm in, I can't seem to find the internal drive!
Any thoughts? I ran sudo fdisk -l in the Terminal and got this:
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.6 GB, 15610576896 bytes
119 heads, 55 sectors/track, 4658 cylinders, total 30489408 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: 0xc3072e18
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 8064 30489407 15240672 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
99% sure that's the flash drive; it's 16GB. If that is the internal drive, I'm just not sure how to mount it. When I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/point it told me mount: only root can do that.
Best Answer
The few times I've done that sort of thing, I used Puppy linux, (newer version is called Slacko), and previous to that Knoppix and AntiX, which were supposed to be better at "finding" hard drives. Best, and easiest way to make a USB, in my opinion,is to use LinuxLive. If the drive is readable, should show up on the desktop in the lower left corner, and you can just click on it. Hope this helps.