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Re: One more ignorant newbie question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Mon Nov 11 07:11:53 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 12:08:21 GMT
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In article <561m2p$s2h@halon.vggas.com>, lance@iac.co.jp says...
>
>During the Colgate install, I had a chance to set up
>a DOS mount. I have a c: d: & e: on /dev/hda2,
>/dev/hda5 & /dev/hda6 respectively.
>
>I entered the drive names for mount point, but the
>install said mount points have to begin with /.
>
>So I entered /c: and so on down the line.
>Now the boot process says these are unmountable.
>
>What goof did I make, and can I fix it without reinstalling?
The mount points need to exist too!
type:
mkdir /{a,c,d,e}
It's far more usual to keep your mount points for these filesystems in /mnt
by the way. To do this, use instead:-
mkdir /mnt/{a,c,d,e} and use control panel to set up these filesystems for
those directories.
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