[102458] in RedHat Linux List
Re[2]: Newbie Screws Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lane Lester)
Thu Dec 3 07:18:21 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 05:59:56 -0500
From: Lane Lester <llester@athens.net>
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Jan Carlson said:
> Try logging out of everything possible,
> then go to a console screen, say the 3rd one:
> hit Ctrl-Alt-F3.
The first time I pressed the above, I was requested to log in. A
couple of times later, nothing happened.
> Then, log in as root and type:
> # mount /DirWhereCdriveUsedToMountOk
The drive in question is not C, but L, which I call "scratch" since I
want it to be a read/write space for both Linux and Win NT. When I
do "mount scratch" it says, "already mounted or busy."
> If that still fails, send output of these commands:
>
> $ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb8 scratch msdos
user,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=0,perm=0 1 1
> $ mount
says the same thing as above.
> $ fdisk -l
Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb8 773 797 100768+ 6 DOS 15-bit >=32M
> What RH version and kernel version are you running now?
5.2; I don't know the kernel version, but I just got the package from
Red Hat.
Here are a few more observations:
I can "cd scratch" and "scratch" is then in the prompt, but ls
produces no output.
In X, I loaded fstab into nedit to look at it, and then I saved it
into scratch as fstab.txt as a way of just having a copy that I could
maybe look at in DOS. Later, an ls shows fstab.txt listed in the
directory alone, although there are lots of other files there. In Win
NT, all those files are listed, =except= fstab.txt!
Yesterday while I was floundering around with mount and who knows what
else, I managed to get access to scratch temporarily. While I had it
I successfully installed Netscape 4.5, using the rpm that was in
scratch. But later, I couldn't get access again.
Lane
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