Lane Lester wrote:
>
> I'm the guy who whined about not being able to install 7.1 because of
> PS/2 port problems. Well, there was a loose connection in my mouse
> which was to blame. I apologize for wasting bandwidth and for the ugly
> thoughts I had about the authors of the install routine.
>
> All is not well, of course. <g> I have to move back and forth between
> Win98 and Linux fairly often, and the install seems to have broken my
> access to Win98. I added it to LILO (surprised that I had to, since at
> the office, it was added automatically), and when I rebooted and
> selected "win" the Win NT boot loader came up (long story why I use the
> NT loader), and I selected Win98 as usual. But then an error message
> came up:
> C> Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g.,
> C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
>
I'm rustier in windows than about anyone<g> else.
> I tried a bunch of answers that I thought might be right, but none of
> them worked. Any ideas?
>
> There is also a Linux problem. To save my 7.0 stuff, I copied the
> goodies to a separate partition, /new, and I did not format that during
> the install. However, I cannot access the partition now after inserting
> the following in fstab and rebooting:
> /dev/hdb7 /new ext2 defaults 0 0
Exactly? Could you have changed around the other partitions so
the numbering is different? If you deleted and recreated even
one partition, the part numbering could have been changed. I
had an interesting session of increasing the entropy of the
universe when I had a /dev/hdd10 occurring physically before a
/dev/hdd9. Fun fun fun.
Civileme
>
> The above is exactly what I had in my old fstab.
>
> Lane (not feeling very expert right now)
