> > Hi List,
> >
> > And Merry Xmas to all!
> >
> > Thanks Mike, for the clarification on not having the
> > ability to have more
> > than one disk or partition mounted in the same
> > place, this is exactly what
> > my hesitantcy has been in editing my fstab, and
> > inadverdantly inserting my
>
ok way over my head"lol john
--- mrweb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> And Merry Xmas to all!
>
> Thanks Mike, for the clarification on not having the
> ability to have more
> than one disk or partition mounted in the same
> place, this is exactly what
> my hesitantcy has been in
Hi List,
And Merry Xmas to all!
Thanks Mike, for the clarification on not having the ability to have more
than one disk or partition mounted in the same place, this is exactly what
my hesitantcy has been in editing my fstab, and inadverdantly inserting my
multiple "/mnt/" points into it.
Altho
- Original Message -
From: mrweb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 9:41 PM
Subject: Re:[expert]fstab for 3 OS's
> Hi List,
>
> Many thanks to Rusty and Anthony. :)
>
> I learned that in order to have a multi b
mrweb wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Many thanks to Rusty and Anthony. :)
>
> I learned that in order to have a multi boot system the way I
> had asked, would require me to appropriately edit each of my fstabs in
> all of my systems and also my boot loaders(?), if I wanted to be able
> to boot all of them
mrweb wrote:
[snip]
>++
>|windows|LM 7.0|LM 7.1|swap|debian|LM 7.1|
>|hda1 |hda5 |hda6 |hda7|hda8 |hda9 |
>++
[snip]
>What I really want is to have access to my files in all of my OS's
>from my Primary OS, thi
Hi List,
Many thanks to Rusty and Anthony. :)
I learned that in order to have a multi boot system the way I
had asked, would require me to appropriately edit each of my fstabs in
all of my systems and also my boot loaders(?), if I wanted to be able
to boot all of them from each other.
I didn'
Okay.
Linux sorts your disks and partitions differenmtly from Windows.
Windows puts an abitrary name on each partition, like A:, C:, D:, E:, etc.
Linu and other Unix-like systems [and to a much lesser extent, Windows
2000] actually show all your storage as a single, heirarchical tree. You
ca
Avoiding doing any tasks such as email, IRC, etc as root.
> Hi List,
>
> Thank you both for your assistance. I thought the numbers refered to the
> order in which the OS's were prioritized for booting, but wanted to make
> sure I was going to do it right and still be able to boot one of them.
>
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
I'm going to not quote everything, I'll just clarify something.
Here are some methods of booting more than one operating system.
1 - different kernels of the same OS, booted using the same root
filesystem (i.e. after the bootup, regardless of which
Hi List,
Thank you both for your assistance. I thought the numbers refered to the
order in which the OS's were prioritized for booting, but wanted to make
sure I was going to do it right and still be able to boot one of them.
I had this;
/dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 2 2
Alexander showed me this mo
Indeed. My bad.
Mike
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach Mike MacCana am Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:52:50AM +1100:
> > [or vice versa, OI might have the numbers round the wrong way]. 1 is a
> > yes, 0 is a no.
>
> No, it tells fsck WHEN to check it. First the 1's are done,
So sprach root am Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:44:19AM -0800:
> I would like to add the following;
>
> /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults ? ?
So sprach Mike MacCana am Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:52:50AM +1100:
> [or vice versa, OI might have the numbers round the wrong way]. 1 is a
> yes, 0 is a no.
No, it tells fsck WHEN to check it. First the 1's are done, then the 2's
etc.pp.
Alexander Skwar
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Regarding those last two numbers in your filesystem table, 2 or 3 are not
appropriate numbers. Thefirst number is used to determine whether the
patition should be backed up by backup software, the second is whether
the partition should be checked if your machine is shut down properly
[or vice
Hi List,
Here is my fstab;
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt
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