I need to mount an external drive or flash drive. To do this I need to add a command to the /etc/fstab file. But I don't know how to to this. Can anyone tell me how? My external drive is a Seagate. I don't know the brand, name, or serial # of my flash drive I can be contacted at: rpbol...@gmail.com (slow because I have to use a public library computer) 403-764-3681
In case you are wondering why I need to do this here is the story. I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian Squeeze. I am happy with the move except that my Lyx files from my Ubuntu days were created with Lyx 2.0.3 but Squeeze runs Lyx 1.6.7 so I cannot use Lyx on these files on Squeeze. This is a major problem for me so I tried to get Lyx 2.0.3 installed on Squeeze eventuallly trying to get it from sid. But unfortunately, a lot of other things got loaded from sid and broke my system. I am planning to reinstall an operating system to clean the mess up but first I need to back up about a day of programming work. Currently on boot up I am given a plain login screen (XWindows is not running). I can also run in recovery mode. But if I plug in a flash drive or external hard drive it is not mounted though the system recognizes that the drive has been plugged in. The system complains that fstab does not contain a mount command for the drive. Other options: 1) start XWindows. I tried startx but it doesn't run properly. 2) ftp my files somewhere. I need a where and I don't know if I have an internet connection. 3) Buy and install a second hard drive. Seems like overkill. 4) ????? Thanks in advance for any help, Ralph (Rocky) Boland _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying