okay, i figured out what is wrong. my hard drive has all of a sudden become
read only. i didn't think this was possible, but here i am.
what i don't understand is how it got that way, and how to fix it. any help
would be great.
also, i have looked in my fstab file. for some reason, only stuff for the
zip drive is there. now, considering i don't know very much, i think that
that is a major problem.
>From: Mike Corbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Booting problem-----more
>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:22:47 -0400
>
>J D wrote:
>
> > i got into linuxconf. when i got to access local volumes, all it has
>is:
> >
> > /dev/zip for source, /mnt/zip for mount point, vfat for FsType.
> > it says it three times. there is nothing else. could this be the
>source of
> > my problems? i think i know what's going on, but since i'm new to this,
>i
> > don't want to get ahead of myself.
>
>Understandable.
>
>Add the dos drive or partitions, if that's what you want to do; however,
>you
>need to know what the /dev/{filename} is. You can find that out with
>fdisk.
>If your dos partition is on the first hdd, then run fdisk without any
>arguments; if on the second hdd, then run with /dev/hdb for an argument.
>The
>screen you need to use is Config | Boot, instead of Config | Filesystems.
>
>mike
>
>
>
>
>On the other hand, that's for adding filesystem fstab mounts, whereas I
>believe
>what you're trying to do is to configure lilo for a boot manager.
>
>In this case, you need to provide the following information:
>
>- the contents of your lilo.conf file, and
>
>- what hdd your dos boot partition is on, hda or hdb.
>
>Also, look using either fdisk, or looking at your fstab file, to see which
>/dev/hd[ab]{n} device file your dos boot partition is mapped to. If it's
>at
>the beginning of hda, then it's probably /dev/hda1, and in this case, if
>you
>want to place lilo boot manager in the MBR (master boot record), then you
>need
>to make sure that the first line of your lilo.conf file (in the /etc
>directory)
>is
>
> boot = /dev/ hda
>
>You can configure lilo using linuxconf, but you described the wrong screen,
>above.
>
>
>
>
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