patg Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 The history is very long and very tired. Here is the issue as it currently stands.... After many failed installation attempts, trying to partition with terminal (knowing very little except of a command called fdisk-and getting this annoying permission denied line every single time i try to do anything)) and an external HD getting knocked on the floor.... The machine is a Dell M2010, the 21 inch Mother of a "Laptop" we have gotten Leo4All V3 installed on the seagate external HD (usb2-300ish GB) and can boot from it. the internal drive on the laptop wont mount in disk utility booted off the dvd or the Seagate so we cannot format and partition and install on it. We have a MBP and data rescue 2 and DiskWarrior to help fix it maybe? I think i have something called spindisk too but ive never used it. If it were already a mac i'd just use target disk mode and disk warrior, but alas, it is a broken PC with no OS and apparently no HD.(and no FW400:-( ) can anyone help? Ps we have been working on this for a week and are going insane(lymac)!! hahahahhaa ahem... as you can see we are clinically insane now with this issue. thanks Patrick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/130235-very-complicated-situation-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
patg Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 can someone please help? or recommend a version good for this hardware? ATI mobility 1800 Intel mobility 975 Duo Core centrino STAC92XX Analog Duplex Intel pro wireless 3945 Broadcom NETxtreme bcm5753 please help...completley dead useless giant laptop Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/130235-very-complicated-situation-please-help/#findComment-924112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersilverpig Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 First off, you need to be administrator to use fdisk (sudo). Second, you don't partition a mounted drive. Third, if there IS a problem with the dvd, you can download a minimal linux cd and partition the disk that way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/130235-very-complicated-situation-please-help/#findComment-924124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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