Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-22 Thread grottoBoy rant
Hi, My fstab file is set the same, I'm on RH7.2... During boot, do you see the device recognized. Anything showing related to /mnt/(dev) that seems funny if you enter the command dmesg, or tail /var/log/messages? Maybe you could doublecheck permissions on the device ls -l cdrom would show per

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
Your report is a bit hard to read, so please forgive me if I have misinterpreted what you sent. 1. /dev/cdrom is usually a symlink, not a real device entry. Is it pointing to the right actual device (/dev/hd?, if your system is IDE, or /dev/sd? if it is SCSI, where ? gets replaced with the ri

Choice of NIST daemon

2002-08-22 Thread Haines Brown
I'd like to have my system clock automatically corrected through an online connection that remains always up. I gather that xntpd is a commonly used daemon to do that for me. However, I find that the Red Hat version of this application is rather old, and when I try to install it, it conflicts wit

Can't see my drives

2002-08-22 Thread cr
I'm having trouble 'seeing' the floppy drive or the CD-ROM. I'm running RedHat 7.2, in all previous versions I had no trouble reading the floppy or CD-ROM, for example just by goingcd /mnt/cdrom ls But now this doesn't work any more. Doesn't matter whether I'm 'me' or su root, cd

Repartitioning

2002-08-22 Thread Peter
Hi, I am contempleting to repartition my slave HD hdd on which I run RH7.2 since my /home directory is becoming tied now that my daughter got into it and I have plenty of extra space on /. I will use the program parted and do the repartitioning from my master HD hda where my RH6.2 resides. Wi