Re: [newbie] Mandake Move to the rescue

[anton]

Re-boot to failsafe, wait for error then create a temp mountpoint for floppy 
and mv /floppy/fstab /etc/fstab, reboot, success.
There was probably a better way to do it (I'm sure you will all rush to 
keyboards to tell me) 
Rush to keyboards to write useless information? Not I! ;0). Alright...
You could simply have booted to failsafe which I think is single-user 
mode (or if its not then just boot to single user), which only boots the 
/ partition. You could also have popped disk one in the cd drive and 
gone to rescue console, where you could have manually edited the fstab 
with a non-x text editor (like vi or pico).

but my excuse is that I did this after a nightshift and
a total of only 8 hours sleep in 48 hours.

You actually sleep!?! What luxuries you afford yourself '-)
Cheers
Anton
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[newbie] Mandake Move to the rescue

[Poogle]

Prepare to snigger...

My existing installation was fairly full so I created a new partition for the 
purpose of creating  back ups for burning to dvd.
Created on an unused part of /hda using diskdrake, said yes to write fstab and 
then shutdown and left the house.(I don't leave electrical equipment on when 
I'm out)

Later tried to boot and failed miserably due to fstab trying to mount the new 
partition - which I'd forgotten to formatooops!

Solution, boot Mandrake Move, copy fstab from /hda to floppy,go to 
/floppy/fstab delete the new line which called the unformatted partition and 
save.
Re-boot to failsafe, wait for error then create a temp mountpoint for floppy 
and mv /floppy/fstab /etc/fstab, reboot, success.
There was probably a better way to do it (I'm sure you will all rush to 
keyboards to tell me) but my excuse is that I did this after a nightshift and 
a total of only 8 hours sleep in 48 hours.
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