Re: [newbie] befuddled-mounting media

2002-01-19 Per discussione Larry W. Irwin Sr. 

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:05:02 -0500
Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In most distros, you have to be root to mount a file system.
 Mandrake???
 
 -- 
 Gerald Waugh

  Not in Mandrake 8.1 anyway. Besides, you can control that with
parameters for each file system in /etc/fstab. For example,

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user , 
   
  The key word there is user.

Larry





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[newbie] Disk Managers

2002-01-15 Per discussione Larry W. Irwin Sr. 

  Hi everybody,

  I got my problem with a 1996 bios and Lilo fixed by not using Lilo.
Installed Grub instead and it is happy.

  Thanks to everyone who responded.

Larry



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[newbie] Linux and Disk Managers

2002-01-14 Per discussione Larry W. Irwin Sr. 

  Hi,

  I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a
motherboard with an old
1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's
MaxBlast disk manger
software provides an extension to the bios code to allow my 20 gig drive to
work. I have
tried to install Mandrake 8.1 several times always with the same result:
When I reboot,
LIL is printed to the screen then it hangs.

  When I first installed MaxBlast, I allowed it to partition the drive. When
I tried to install Linux
the disk partitioning software got confused and trashed the whole partition
table. I thought
that perhaps Linux didn't like the way MaxBlast created the partitions so I
used a Win98
boot disk and fdisk to create the two Windows partitions. Tried to install
Linux again today
and still get the LIL thing.

  Is there a way around this?

Thanks,
Larry






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