On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Well I finally got RH 5.2 working on my 486 so decided to upgrade to
> Mandrake 6.0. As I was told the file optimaztion routine must be
> commented out for an older 486 system and that's OK but I can't get the
> /dev/hda1/ to mount and remount to make it a rw instead of just a read.
> Here is what I have done.
>
> cd /root/
> mount /dev/hda1/ -o remount -o -w (get error here that hda1 not mounted
> or bad option)
Well i dont have mandrake, however a disk has to be mounted read and
write i rather think the command should be;
mount /dev/hda1/ -o remount -o -rw
Your issing thr "r" for read.
> cd /etc/rc.d
> pico rc.sysinit
> (then edit the file to remove the hdparm and try to write back. Get
> error that hda1 in read only)
>
>
> So what am I doing wrong on making the drive writeable?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bill
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