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Re: 3.0.3 to 4.0 harddrive update woes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Wed Oct 23 17:01:30 1996

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:47:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <9610232043.AA01347@stata2.byu.edu>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, David Whiting wrote:

> The packages are on /dev/sda4 under RedHat/RPMS, as per the
> installation instructions.  Come to think of it, my /etc/fstab does
> have entries for /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, which the install program
> couldn't see since it assumes I have only one scsi adaptor (like any
> sane person).  Could this be causing all the problems?
> 
> I'm at work, but my fstab is essentially as follows:
> 
>   /dev/sda1 is mounted as /dos
>   /dev/sda2 is swap
>   /dev/sda3 is mounted as /
>   /dev/sda4 is mounted as /home
>   /dev/sdb1 is mounted as /scratch
>   /dev/sdc1 is mounted as /archive

That's the problem. If you comment out /dev/sda4 in /home, you'll be
all set.

Alternatively, you could wait a little while, and I'll have some new
disk images that should fix this problem :-)

Erik

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