This query refers to a Mepis (Debian variant) install I've done, as well as to the live-CD version of that distro, from which the installation runs. I'm setting up a computer for a friend who is not very computer-literate, but who also can't afford XP, so I wanted a fairly user-friendly distro, but something not too far removed from what I know better (Debian). The choice really was decided by the fact that, of those distros I tried on the target hardware (P3 500, 128MB RAM, 4GB HD--found in the garbage), Mepis was the only one that autoconfigured the Lucent winmodem the thing has. Because the machine was a bit tight on space, I added a second drive--1.2GB. Unfortunately the automated install Mepis runs does not allow for much in the way of partition tweaking: in fact, it's set up to only install to a single drive. So, I installed it to the 4GB drive, planning on moving some large dir over to the second drive and creating a mount point and fstab entry for it. It took me a couple of install attempts to get that right. In both of my previous attempts, as well as during sessions run from the live-CD, the modem was working fine. On the third attempt, before actually booting into the newly-installed system, I found a suitably large directory to move over to the second drive--/usr/lib (640+ MB). I copied it's contents over to the second drive (as root cp -R /usr/lib/* /mnt/hdb2), renamed the original dir to /usr/slib on the main drive, created a new /usr/lib (using Konqueror as root) on the main drive, and edited /etc/fstab to mount the second drive at /usr/lib. On boot, it all seemed to go successfully. The drive mounts at the specified place, and files are accessible. But I was greeted on KDE startup with the message "/dev/dsp not found." I didn't see that on previous install attempts or on running from the live-CD. And when I tried to query the modem, it told me the modem cannot be opened. I'm trying to find out what went wrong.
Could moving the directory /usr/lib to the second drive have caused this problem? Did I maybe screw up some permissions in copying? Any suggestions--short of another install--for fixing it if it does seem like this is where the problem lies? Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
