Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>Originally before you installed 10.1, you had win98 and mandrake9.1 >>then you made a new installation in the free space of win98. >> >>When you did that you changed the partition table of the drive. >>So you need to find out which partition is what to start with. >> >>If you did default installs with /,swap,and /home >> >>win98 hda1 >>10.1 / hda? >>swap hda? >>10.1 /home hda? >>9.1 / hda? >>swap hda? >>9.1 /home hda? >> >>Or how ever you partitioned it >> >>10.1 was the last one you installed so its fstab would reflect its >>partitons correctly. The 9.1 fstab will have to be corrected to >>reflect the new partitions as Mikkel mentioned in his post. >> >>Not sure about the modem driver issue but I would make sure the >>basics are in order first. >> >> >>Mike > > > > Thanks, Mike. > > This is the actual partition table > (with just one swap partition, as suggested by Mikkel): > > win98 hda1 > 10.1 / hda9 > 10.1 /home hda10 > 9.1 / hda5 > swap hda6 > 9.1 /home hda8 > > . Now, this is the 10.1 /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda9 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > /dev/hda10 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850, > noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 > /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850, > noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 > none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0, > iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/linux2 ext3 defaults 1 2 > > , and this is the 9.1 /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--, > iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 > 0 > none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--, > iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 > 0 > none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--, > > iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > . How to correct it?
It looks to me like you have the partitions set correctly in you fstabs so no need for changes. > Maybe you mean that in the 9.1 fstab the line > > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > should be changed into > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/linux2 ext3 defaults 1 2 No, don't do that. > ? But wouldn't this mount the /dev/hda5 > into a subdirectory /mnt/linux2 of the /dev/hda5's root directory itself? > (And this way create confusion?) I suspect it would create a problem. > > During the boot of 10.1 I read every time the following message: > > Mounting other filesystems: mount: none already mounted or dev/pts busy > [FAILED] > > . Maybe the modem problem coud be related to it? > I'm sending a new thread about this. > > Cheers, > Rodolfo > You said you had to reinstall the modem in your 9.1, did you get it working again? Mike
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