[CS-FSLUG] help with Libranet boot problem

[Josiah Ritchie]

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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