Avoiding doing any tasks such as email, IRC, etc as root. > Hi List, > > Thank you both for your assistance. I thought the numbers refered to the > order in which the OS's were prioritized for booting, but wanted to make > sure I was going to do it right and still be able to boot one of them. > > I had this; > /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 2 2 > > Alexander showed me this mount point; > /dev/had7 /mnt/exchange ext2 defaults 2 2 > > I thought the mount point was an important distinction. > > Also if I were to add a 3rd Linux OS to fstab could it look like this? > > /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 <----first > /dev/hda7 /mnt/exchange ext2 defaults 2 2 <----second > /dev/hda8 /mnt/exchange ext2 defaults 3 3 <----third > ? > > Of particular interest to me is the `mounting point'? And if there were > three ext2 OS's would they have to appear in numerical descending order in > my fstab? Or do I have the liberty to adjust and customize their booting > orders NOT based upon their partition number? In other words could I make > /hda8 boot first and hda5 boot third? > > Thanks ever so much, > > mrweb > > > > There's plenty of semicolons to go around
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