Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 11:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Ken, Seen you around here long enough to know you know what you are doing But I must admit.. You've come up with one I didn't even know was possible Not this will help but I've definitely been stumped before ... and

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread Tom
Is the partition being mounted as read-only? On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:45 am, Ken Thompson wrote: I booted into rescue mode and every file I looked at was either read or read execute, none have write.. WTF?? Installed twice thinking I'd borked it the first time.. Ken Thompson. Want

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread James Sparenberg
You might want to try tomsRTBT to boot into a linux that will allow you to mount partitions and see what the original /etc/fstab said. somehow, someway it's 100% sure that you want a read only file system... (better than write only ... but not by much.) James On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 09:53,

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 05:55 pm, Tom wrote: Is the partition being mounted as read-only? I'll have to re-install and look. I gave up kinda after 2 flops.. I did get in far enough with a rescue CD to see that every file I looked at was read only.. I don't recall seeing the mounting fs in

[expert] Read only after install

2002-12-31 Thread Ken Thompson
Hello all, I just tried to install the download version of LM9.0 - everything went without a hitch until the reboot after installation was finished. During boot it hits a spot trying to detect the USB and goes into a loop, I can catch read only file system at the end. At one point I tried Ctrl

Re: [expert] Read only after install

2002-12-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 07:32 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: Hello all, I just tried to install the download version of LM9.0 - everything went without a hitch until the reboot after installation was finished. During boot it hits a spot trying to detect the USB and goes into a loop, I can catch

[expert] Read only after install.

2002-12-31 Thread Ken Thompson
I booted into rescue mode and every file I looked at was either read or read execute, none have write.. WTF?? Installed twice thinking I'd borked it the first time.. Ken Thompson. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2002-12-31 Thread James Sparenberg
Ken, Seen you around here long enough to know you know what you are doing But I must admit.. You've come up with one I didn't even know was possible Not this will help but I've definitely been stumped before ... and this one is the winner, hands down... Just out of curiosity... what