[CS-FSLUG] help with Libranet boot problem
Josiah Ritchie
jritchie at bible.edu
Mon May 17 07:21:37 CDT 2004
I think you are probably in good hands with Nathan on this. He's done a
lot of installing and dual-booting. I imagine he can make it work. :-)
If not, well I'm not entirely sure that I can be of much help over
email.
JSR/
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 17:18, R. Thompson wrote:
> Thank you Jukka,
>
> I will check out the website. Nathan said that he would come out to
> work with me and help me fix the problem. The reason for doing a full
> install is that active perl quit working on the original installation
> (probably because I had messed it up) and I thought it would be a good
> idea to have a complete backup OS on the second hd.
>
> Hopefully I will find what I need at this website. Today Nathan is
> working on backing up my old AST laptop, we found SUSE Linux 7.2 (which
> would work on the older laptop) for only $10 Canadian.
>
> Ron T.
>
> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 09:11, Jukka Y wrote:
> > I do not know how much space your extra Libranet installation took, but if you
> > want use all space from the disk you added, you should just format/make
> > filesystem on it (reiserfs?) and "mount" it into filesystem of your current
> > installation. It avoids you having unnecessary duplicates from home-directory
> > and programs/their configuration-files. I found this article describing the
> > process of adding additional harddrives to linux:
> >
> > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4232/1/
> >
> > (look specailly pages are 3 and 4)
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Jukka
> >
> > [Psalms 121]
> >
> > On Saturday 15 May 2004 10:52, R. Thompson wrote:
> > > Hi Josiah,
> > >
> > > Finished up work at midnight and I'm just now heading to bed.
> > >
> > > I did as Jukka suggested and looked at the following files:
> > > #/etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > > #
> > > #<device> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> > > /dev/hdb1 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
> > > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
> > > /dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0
> > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
> > > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0660,devgid=432 0 0
> > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom udf,iso9960 defaults,user,noauto,ro 0 0
> > >
> > > the mtab file looks like this
> > > /dev/hdb1 / reiserfs rw 0 0
> > > proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> > > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5, mode=620 0 0
> > > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0660,devgid=432 0 0
> > >
> > > It appears that there is no mention of hda1. If it is a matter of
> > > setting up booting using grub, I think I should have the procedure in
> > > one of the books I have.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help, I'll tackle this when I'm back at work, hopefully
> > > not before Monday :-)
> > >
> > > Ron T.
> >
> >
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