Saving my files from LM

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Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 2nd, '15, 07:09

I newly installed Mageia 5 on a usb stick. I tried to view the files on my HD which contains LM & got an error 'failed to mount the partition'. Otherwise the 3 partitions are displayed. Any ideas?
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby benmc » Sep 2nd, '15, 09:36

Hello Kuman and welcome to Mageia.

kuman wrote:HD which contains LM

what do you mean by "LM"?
are these partitions encrypted?
which desktop are you using?
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 2nd, '15, 18:40

it's Linux Mint
don't think they're encrypted
the last choice in the menu, other DT
I liked the last one cause it's small, fitted in on a 4Gb Stick.
it also doesn't mount the content of the 2 Gb sd card, I can only see it in viewing the partitions

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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 2nd, '15, 19:23

kuman wrote:the last choice in the menu, other DT
I liked the last one cause it's small, fitted in on a 4Gb Stick.

The last choice in which menu, do you mean in the installer? http://doc.mageia.org/installer/5/en/co ... roups.html
And what media did you use to install Mageia?

Please open a terminal, and show the output of the following commands, run as your normal user:
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/sbin/blkid
mount
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep polkit
echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 3rd, '15, 14:27

I'm struggling with the Character Map app, can't enter the vertical line in the code. There's any other way?

And what media did you use to install Mageia?

It's on a usb stick & I run it from it.

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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 3rd, '15, 15:01

Copy&paste? Or use the minus key on the numeric keypad?
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 3rd, '15, 15:22

it's a notebook, doesn't have a numeric pad, the vert line is shown in green on the key right below the escape key
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 3rd, '15, 15:24

c/p doesn't work in terminal for some reason
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 3rd, '15, 15:36

Can't even c/p the output after 1st 2 rows in the terminal :o

Maybe the HD hibernates as I saw in a thread ....
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 3rd, '15, 16:34

What does hdd hibernating have to do with copy&paste? If you access the hdd, it will wake up from energy-saving.
How do you copy&paste? Via right-click context menu, or via terminal emulator menu?
You can also use Ctrl+Shift+C to copy and Ctrl+Shift+V to insert in terminal.
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 3rd, '15, 18:16

Ctrl+Shift+C to copy and Ctrl+Shift+V also didn't work in terminal
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby benmc » Sep 4th, '15, 02:53

doktor5000 wrote:what media did you use to install Mageia?

kuman wrote:It's on a usb stick & I run it from it.


He meant when you downloaded the .iso media from Mageia , which one of the many did you download?
KDE Live cd, Gnome Live cd, KDE Live DVD 32 or 64, Gnome Live DVD 32 or 64, Classical DVD 32 or 64.

Would you mind launching Mageia Welcome and at the top right it will give some information about your system, Mageia version, kernel and destktop:*******
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 4th, '15, 15:55

Where can I launch Mageia Welcome from?
I only installed sellected programs, used the free software 32 bit cd network, from a mirror option.
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby benmc » Sep 6th, '15, 16:22

unless you have disabled "Mageia Welcome", it should start when you restart your computor
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 7th, '15, 13:06

benmc wrote:unless you have disabled "Mageia Welcome", it should start when you restart your computor


I saw it now, it didn't show up w/ the errors, kernel 3.19.8-DT-3.mga5

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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby benmc » Sep 7th, '15, 14:47

Desktop type will be shown under the kernel entry. Are you able access your LM files now?,
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Re: Saving my files from LM

Postby kuman » Sep 8th, '15, 01:43

benmc wrote:Desktop type will be shown under the kernel entry. Are you able access your LM files now?,


Not yet, I got another issue, u can see it in 2nd display.
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