On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:You didn't do anything wrong.
Essentially , if you want the nice easy gui way, just navigate to the file in question,via home to / and click on the desired directories to the file in question, then right mouse click the icon for that file , then "open with", and choose a text editor from the list, say kwrite , or whatever one takes your fancy. When your done, just save and exit.
so we already have hdc=ide-scsi in the append= line of /etc/lilo.conf, fine.
in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to, none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
Ok, i did that, BUT....i tried to save, and it told me i didn't have write permission.
Linux has a complex system of "permissions", attatched to every file folder and device, it sound to me as though you tried to do this as a user, not as root. Just log out , in the user box type root, give password, and then you will arrive at a root desktop, and proceed.
You can also type su into a terminal and give the password for root, and then from a root terminal you can call up a text editor.
Are you quite sure the jumpers on the back of your writer/rom are set to master, and your device is on ide2 line.
Absolutely 100% positive. just put a second hard drive in last week. the origonal set up had the CDRW drive and origonal hard drive on the secondary IDE channel, CDRW as master, hard drive as slave. i put both hard drives on the primary IDE channel and set them to master and slave as needed. well, that's actually not 100% true...ASUS tech support told me to make them both CS to get the system to boot up. and it worked. then they both got switched back in order for win98 to work while installing the 2nd hard drive, and then i did the install of md9.1. i know i'm going way too much into more detail than necessary (and have a habit of doing so), but hey, it's better than me saying "uhhh, yeah, uhhh, i think so."
It's always better to give too much detail than not enough. The only comment here that I can think of is either have both ide lines with devices set CS on the jumpers, (meaning the position on the ide cable determins the authority, ie Cable Selects) or, as I prefer , choose which device is master and which slave. I do it that way so I'm in charge and absolutely certain which way round things are.I guess I distrust chips and software to get things right.
It hardly matters what the partition ( let me call it a partition for clarity, as you have more than one harddrive) is called , you can give it any name you like in fstab , so long as you create a mount point in /mnt directory of the same name. so if you want to call /dev/hdb8 /mnt/win_g then go ahead and do it, but make sure you also have a /mnt/win_g in /mnt directory. To do this either,
while we're on the subject of editing the fstab file, i've got something else that needs done along the same lines. when i finally went and installed md9.1, i had my 20gb hard drive partitioned 2 ways, 5g and 15g (md9.1 is on the 15g partition), and had my 100g hard drive partitioned 5 ways. well, i didn't have one of the partitions on the 100g hard drive set up fully before installing md9.1, so i had to go about that later. i got every other hard drive partition to show and be fully accessable from linux except that last one. here's the hard drive listings in fstab
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
as you notice, /dev/hdb8/mntwindows is the one i'm having problems with. so once i figure out how to get write permission for the fstab file, would i change that last one to
/dev/hdb8/mnt/win_g vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,unmask=0 0 0
1) navigate via /home to / , then to /mnt and in the window space rightmouse click , down to, create new directory, name it and press enter.
or,
In a root terminal , type, mkdir /mnt/win_8 <enter>
then to check your work, cd (means change directory) /mnt <enter> then , ls and a list of directories in /mnt will be displayed.
Also, while at it, in your example ,
/dev/hdb8/mnt/win_g vfat, etc etc,
their ought to be a space between /dev/hdb8 <space > /mnt/win_g vfat, etc etc.
It looks to me that you don't have one.
Great care with the nomenclature of fstab is
very important.
No need to appologise , I do the same myself. It's handydandy to have spare partitions.
you may ask, why partition the 20gb and 100gb hard drives so many ways?
It beats me why so many people have just one partition for a single large drive.
John
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