linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Another question about Installing Mint 17 Mate

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Another question about Installing Mint 17 Mate

On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 07:53:34PM -0500, 'Gene C. Falck' gfalck@merr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've noticed that there is a dev/sdc involved in some of my
> terminal inquiry results while booted from the Live CD USB
> and also on a popup that happens (when trying to install)
> when the preparatory screen that has the "For best results,
> Please ensure that..." matters. The popup asks whether I
> want to Unmount partitions that are in use and specifies
> that /dev/sdc is in question.

It _sounds_ as if it's either a CD or USB. It would make sense then, that
you're not able to write to it, but I would think you don't have to unmount
it.

>
> So what is /dev/sdc? It seems that "partitions in use" have
> to be on the computer I want have running on Mint or else
> on the Live CD USB; The terminal command df -h shows a
> /dev/sdc1 as being on the USB with 6.6G of content I most
> likely don't want to lose.
>
> That "unmounting it" sounds rather drastic (depending on
> what it is)--is that even an acceptable idea?
>
> It also avers that if I leave "them" mounted, I will not be able
> to create, delete, or resize partitions on "these" disks.

Again, that makes sense if it's the CD. How many disks are in the
computer. If you have two disks, then it's almost certainly the CD or USB.

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