Yo peeps, new to most of this.Taking course : intro to computer science Need fedora for the class. its a stack skills buy . so no cannot ask instructor for help. that being said
while setting up hard drive made new partition for fedora on my machine. Dell xps laptop that has windows7
already installed. At end of download after putting in admin password machine froze and stuck for over a half hour. I shut it down. its evident the install was not complete.
So upon booting Fedora script was running and the bam !
Dracut Emergency Shell pop's up.
Warning:/dev/mapper/fedoraoo-root does not exist
I found the solved blog for this quarry. But , i was prompted to set up an account. After becomming a member .
I lost the post. being green to this site and the search . I cannot find the post do to this search engine.
Thanks for the help anyone can give me.
Q how do i delete and wipe the partition that was created and this os was installed into so i can do a clean reinstall?
DeadHackerHead

If you can boot linux, there are ways but generally just reinstall & reformat the drives you want to wipe. Don't switch the thing off during an install. You can go away and leave it once you choose the packages, overnight if needed, but don't switch off.

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Thanks bro, yea I know better... But It sat for a while and was in a frozen state . Well I was able to get it too boot up and I can get to the log in page. But now the pass word I had to enter does not work . I know I have the correct one. I wrote it down as I typed it in . I did the below the password I wrote in my note book . It's written three time. Once when I came up with it and twice when I entered it as the admin PW. I tried to get around adding one but would not let me leave it blank.
Ok . I'm now trying to find the O.s. So I can delete it from the partition and start over . But can't find the files . I will get it eventually . Thank you for your help !

If you get any linux system running (e.g. a live or install cd) you can grab a terminal and do stuff. mount the partitions and search for the / directory. That will have /bin, and /etc. Let's say you find it on sdaX, then
and you can try to fix it up - reinstalling if necessary