On Wednesday 22 November 2000 14:54, Chris Spencer wrote: > On November 22, 2000 06:49 am, you wrote: > > I noticed one thing different in the Mandrake fstab file (I can access > > the LM files from SuSE) compared to the SuSE fstab, in Drake I read: > > /dev/hda8 / ext2 noauto,user,rw 1 1 > > which looked a bit weird to me, in SuSE it's: > > /dev/hda5 / ext2�������� defaults 1 1 > > > > I changed the file in LM and tryed to boot; VOILA! all of a sudden it > > worked! > > Glad to hear that you got it working. I just did a fresh workstation > install on Sunday and after reading your message I had to check out my > fstab. My root partition is being mounted normally. > > Perhaps this is an isolated incident. At the same time I wonder if it has > anything to do with SuSE being installed on there too. I bet the cooker > people would love you if you reinstalled to see if the same problem > reoccurs, and if so, report it to https://qa.mandrakesoft.com. :) Like I said earlier, a friend with different hardware and other set of cd-rom's had the same problem, now I'm waiting for him to take a look at his fstab file. I've had SuSE as my default OS for a long time and always installing other dist's on the same harddisk, never had problems with that. I've had 4 Linuxes (and Win98) at once on one disk, all running smoothly....:-) I might in fact try another LM install just because I'm curious myself, in fact I would like to install Mandrake at work but it doesn't. There's only one dist willing to install on my box at work and it's Caldera, I've tryed SuSE, Red Hat, Slackware, Storm, Debian, Mandrake, you name it, they all freeze at the moment they try to load into/initiate ramdisk, all except Caldera (2.3 and 2.4). Problem with Caldera is that it's a nightmare to try and install some applications you need that are not Caldera's. > > BTW, I think you're making a good choice to use Mandrake to introduce/teach > people about Linux. SuSE was my first distro and I found it to be totally > overwhelming at first. Very good distro, mind you, but just big... SuSE is a Dinosaur. > > -Chris ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
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