Linux Mint 17 Not Mounting Blank DVD-R Or Blank CD-R

I am installing Linuc Mint Rebecca on this computer: CPU: I7, motherboard: ASUS X99-A, HD: 2x 2TB, motherboard BIOS RAID1, so the total hard drive size is 2TB

While I was installing LINUX MINT on RAID1 hard drive, the installation system pop up ??? ???windows at Wher Are You step, after I click OK, jump to Installation Type, no matter which type I select: Erase disk and install Linux Mint or Someting else, ??? error message pop up at Where are you.

And if I click either of the two disk, it shows "Unable to mount location"

however, I can double click and see the content of RAID1 2TB disk.

Question: what's the problem of LINUX MINT installation on RAID1?

Hi, So im quite new to linux and im not surprised as iv tried before to check it out and failed then (old computers problem) but i decided to have another go on a new comp recently.

UEFI mobo
Nvidia geforce 770 as output.

I need a duel boot of win7 & mint. Win7 is installed.

UEFI has caused me so many problems its just beyond me ! (i had never heard of it before i brought this comp)

booting Mint from a cd/dvd works fine.

booting from a USB fails with a blank or locked up screen at the first mint logo. (many tests with dif methods of creating live USB)

Installing mint with grub over the top of win boot loader fails , i get no options to choose between win & linux it boots straight to linux and then fails (same error as above)

I have a small SSD with win7 , there is not a lot of space on it so i want to install mint 17.1KDE on a different HDD.

After a month or so of reading testing reading testing etc i ended up getting mint installed on partitions i created on secondary HDD but i had to keep the windows boot loader in place and use easyBCD.

However now i get the choice of win7 or linux and windows still actually works (breakthrough ^^) BUT linux just crashes at boot (at the first logo) and then the monitor looses all signal?


I am soo frustrated. Mint will run of a CD but i can not get it to work in any other way , please help

Thx.

I'm new to Linux Mint and have spent days researching and reading posts from users who were having problems with finding and mounting USB sticks in Linux. I'm about worn out trying to solve the problem and still can't do this. Is there a solution that I've missed that can provide success in recognizing and mounting and mount a USB?

Hello everyone,

I just tried upgrading to Linux Mint 17 from version 16, and I obviously did something wrong since when I'm prompted for my password, I get an error message saying "failed to load session cinnamon."

Then there are some error logs which say failed to connect to virtual box kernel service for several lines, then below that "unable to find cinnamon-fullback-mount-helper."

I tried doing ctrl alt f2, but I get a whole bunch of gobbledy gook which I'm unable to copy and paste.

I also tried burning a new DVD-R with Mint 17, but my computer doesn't even read it when I power it on. Otherwise, I would have tried reinstalling the OS.

So any suggestions you have will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I recently purchased a laptop that came with Windows 8.1 as the OS. I am trying to switch it over to Linux Mint 17.1 (Rebecca). I found an Ubuntu disk loader that I placed on a DVD and it boots just fine. Downloaded the 32-bit Linux Mint .I so and burned it to a DVD. Tried to boot from it and nothing. Being new, the problem pretty much has to be something insanely simple but I sure can't find it. Would really appreciate any expertise out there.

I have followed all the instructions I have got from the net and made boot-able DVD's and USB sticks several different ways as people advise. I have done the same with Mint 17. I have created a partition (26G) and follow the install instructions 1: English 2:Has at least 7.4G available drive space. 4: Is connected to the internet. 5: Here it shows a page where I think it should display the drive options (but does not) If I push the "install now" button it comes up with an error "No root file system is defined --Please correct this from the partitioning menu" I close the installer and look at the drives in GParted and they are all there and the one I created for Linux is PARTITION - /dev/sda4 FILE SYSTEM - ext4
MOUNT POINT - /media/makulu/0C43086E0C43086E LABEL - Lin
SIZE - 26.02 GB USED - 590.07 Mb UNUSED - 24.44 GB FLAG - (blank)
No indication on how to fix the "No root file system" problem. I have tried so many bits of advise that I am beginning to think that I may be better of sticking to windows (perish the thought)
Can anyone help?
Col

A week ago, I realized that I could not boot live disks. At first, I thought that it was the optical drive not writing the disks correctly, but when I tried two live disks that I've used many times before nothing happened with those either.

I have CD/DVD drive listed first in my BIOS' boot order and I even tried selecting the optical drive in the menu when the computer started and it still does not boot a disk. Thankfully, my somewhat old hard drives are still chugging along but I need to be able to use a live disk, in case one or both die on me.

My question is, how can I know for sure what the problem is? Is there a way to test the optical drive (Samsung Super Writemaster - which has a bad rep)? Could it be my motherboard. It was bought new 2 years ago, and there are no other issues with it. Also, I have been able to create playable DVDs on my computer with the Optical drive that work perfectly on my Bluray player, yet I cannot play the movies or open a data disk in file manager on my computer. What does that mean?

I want to know that it's worth it to buy another burner, before shelling out the money when I'm already practically broke from Christmas gift purchases. Any suggestions on how to test the optical drive would be appreciated.

For whatever reason, when I try to mount a data DVD I get the following message:

Unable to mount [disk name]
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: mount point /media/cdrom does not exist

Yet, if I put a DVD video in I can play on any of my video apps, yet I also can't mount those in a file browser. I have no idea what has caused this. I haven't backed up data to disks in a long time, I only did so today because I'm running low on space in one of my drives.

I was told elsewhere that I needed to alter a file: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules

But I have no idea how to do this, and what I found there does not look like what was shown. This is what my file looks like:

Code:

# This file maintains persistent names for CD/DVD reader and writer devices.
# See udev(7) for syntax.
#
# Entries are automatically added by the 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules
# file; however you are also free to add your own entries provided you
# add the ENV{GENERATED}=1 flag to your own rules as well.
# TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_SH-S223C (pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0)
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

My real objective is to clean existing nodes from a Hadoop cluster, claim the space etc. and do a fresh installation of another distro.

Below is the space descr. of one of the master(namenode):

Code:

df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-root
                      2.0G  739M  1.2G  39% /
tmpfs                  24G     0   24G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/mpathap1  194M   65M  120M  36% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00-home
                      248M   12M  224M   5% /home
/dev/mapper/vg00-nsr  248M   11M  226M   5% /nsr
/dev/mapper/vg00-opt  3.1G   79M  2.8G   3% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg00-itm  434M   11M  402M   3% /opt/IBM/ITM
/dev/mapper/vg00-tmp  2.0G   68M  1.9G   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr  2.0G  1.6G  305M  85% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr_local
                      248M   11M  226M   5% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/vg00-var  2.0G  820M  1.1G  43% /var
/dev/mapper/vg00-FSImage
                      917G  3.3G  867G   1% /opt/hadoop-FSImage
/dev/mapper/vg00-Zookeeper
                      917G  200M  870G   1% /opt/hadoop-Zookeeper

And one of the slave(datanodes)(the others too have 4-8 local disks and some mounted NFS drives):

Code:

df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-root
                      2.0G  411M  1.5G  22% /
tmpfs                  36G     0   36G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/mpathap1  194M   67M  118M  37% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00-home
                      248M   11M  226M   5% /home
/dev/mapper/vg00-nsr  248M   11M  226M   5% /nsr
/dev/mapper/vg00-opt  3.1G   82M  2.8G   3% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg00-itm  434M   11M  402M   3% /opt/IBM/ITM
/dev/mapper/vg00-tmp  2.0G   68M  1.9G   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr  2.0G  1.2G  690M  64% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr_local
                      248M   11M  226M   5% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/vg00-var  2.0G  1.5G  392M  80% /var
/dev/mapper/vg00-00   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-00
/dev/mapper/vg00-01   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-01
/dev/mapper/vg00-02   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-02
/dev/mapper/vg00-03   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-03
/dev/mapper/vg00-04   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-04
/dev/mapper/vg00-05   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-05
/dev/mapper/vg00-06   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-06
/dev/mapper/vg00-07   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-07

During the new installation, I have run into space issues for all the nodes/hosts

Code:

Not enough disk space on host (l1032lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.
Not enough disk space on host (l1033lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.
Not enough disk space on host (l1034lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.
Not enough disk space on host (l1035lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.

Now the installation requires a lot of space under /, /usr, /var and /home mounts which on both master and the slaves is less but there is lots of space in master under these two disks:

Code:

/dev/mapper/vg00-FSImage
                      917G  200M  870G   1% /opt/hadoop-FSImage
/dev/mapper/vg00-Zookeeper
                      917G  6.5G  864G   1% /opt/hadoop-Zookeeper

and on slaves under these 8 disks.

Code:

/dev/mapper/vg00-00   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-00
/dev/mapper/vg00-01   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-01
/dev/mapper/vg00-02   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-02
/dev/mapper/vg00-03   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-03
/dev/mapper/vg00-04   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-04
/dev/mapper/vg00-05   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-05
/dev/mapper/vg00-06   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-06
/dev/mapper/vg00-07   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-07

I'm a bit confused as how to proceed - I was wondering if I can partition one or more of these disks and allocate those under /, /usr etc. and proceed with the installation but then will these disk partitioning and mounting/un-mounting corrupt the existing /, /usr etc. mounts ?

So I'm brand spanking new at this. I'm trying to teach myself about Linux and RPM-based distributions specifically because it's a requirement for a job that I really, really want (very tired of being a barista). Beyond that as someone who primarily uses my computer for gaming, I'm quite satisfied with using Windows 7.

I'm currently attempting, and so far failing, to install OpenMandriva on a completely blank 1TB external HDD. I've finally gotten the install to boot from the DVD disk properly, but now I'm running into this error:

"Partitioning failed: FAT resizing failed: ntfs resize failed: ntfsresize v2014.2.15 (libntfs-3g)
Error: device '/dec/sdd1' is mounted. You must 'unmount' it first."

What I've tried so far is this what this site has provided: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...#1TC=windows-7

Unfortunately, the same error pops up regardless. What am I missing? Also, pretend that you're trying to explain this to your grandpa. I probably won't understand what you're trying to tell me otherwise. Please help! I'm near the end of my rope over here.