----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fsck
Hi !!
> >
<snip>
> > I unknowingly restored my old fstab, so the next time I booted, I
couldn't
> do anything because my partition table did not reflect what was entered
> into fstab. I could not change fstab because / was mounted read only, and
> I couldn't remount it because the partition entries in fstab did not match
> the partition table.
Yep .. have faced this problem ..
>
> I could not figure out any solution after two days, and decided to
> reinstall again. This time I restored correctly.
I had solved this problem in a different fashion .. Used a single floppy
distro called mulinux and mounted the filesystem as r/w and modified the
fstab file and then rebooted the system into the original distro .. and
voila .. There are countless other ways of solving this problem , most of
which centre around the concept of loading a light O.S in memory and
modifying the files on the disk ..
>
> I have never lost any information because I always take backups and keep
> them in varied locations that are really far apart.
Well good for you ..
>
> Hope my experience will help anyone who wants to set up a new system.
> Keep it simple to start with, get confident and then reinstall. Then
> recompile the kernel.
Sure ,,. your words are worth their weight 'n gold ..
Happy linuxing
Regards
Sandesh
</snip>
> Philip
>
>
> To subscribe / unsubscribe goto the site www.ilug-bom.org ., click on the
mailing list button and fill the appropriate information
> and submit. For any other queries contact the ML maintener
>
>
To subscribe / unsubscribe goto the site www.ilug-bom.org ., click on the mailing list
button and fill the appropriate information
and submit. For any other queries contact the ML maintener
