Ubuntu 8.04.2, just installed, doesn't allow ... To Matt and mks.

[David MacClement]

Thanks, Matt (and others); here's my two tries (copy-n-paste from terminal):
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davd at davd-laptop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Error: Could not stat device /dev/sda - No such file or directory.
Retry/Cancel? c
davd at davd-laptop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda1 print
Error: Could not stat device /dev/sda1 - No such file or directory
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I think this means there's nothing called sda in my FileSystem's dev
folder, and looking in it, that is so.
I also noticed that there are a whole lot of block-devices and
character-devices, all with zero bytes; including: hda, hda1, hda2, hda5.


* Separately, to mks (Markus Schönhaber):
The email notification from Ubuntu (which went to the address which I
access and download to the Evolution emailer on my 8.04.1), from memory
told me to go to:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

- which has:
----- begin -----
Choose a version
 ...
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop: Released April 2008 and maintained until April
2011 ...

Choose a download location near you
- (I chose the New Zealand mirror)

Begin Download

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Which I did, burned a CD, then installed it.

David.

On Fri, January 23, 2009 18:37, Matthew Flaschen wrote, re:
>
> David MacClement wrote:
>> An hour ago I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 8.04.2 while using my
>> 8.04.1, but now I find that neither my own hardDisk nor my earlier
>> installations (e.g. with their Firefox bookmarks) are accessible to me.
>
> Start by running:
>
> sudo parted /dev/sda print
>
> in a terminal.  This assumes you have only one drive, called /dev/sda ,
> and will tell us what partitions are on it.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
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