On Monday 21 July 2003 10:25, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Monday 21 July 2003 15:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Robert Crawford wrote: > > >OK- I give up. > > > > > >If Azarah is a person, why is he showing up as a storage device, and as > > > a partition in kde control center information? What am I missing here? > > > > At a guess, and probably incorrect... Has your editor inserted a newline > > in that header string? A bogus newline in /etc/fstab could cause azarah > > to be a mountpoint... > > I just checked the header in my /etc/fstab and as it looks it MUST be a new > line. Here is the line: > > # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.12 2003/03/11 > 02:50:53 azarah Exp $ > > You see, my KMail broke it exactly at that position, so "02:50:53" is now > interpreted as the device, "azarah" as mountpoint "Exp" is the type of > filesystem and "$" is mount option. > > So, I think, Robert has to check his fstab more carefully... > Btw, is it possible that you edited it with nano and forgot the "-w" > switch? > > > Cheers, > Renat
Renat, Yeah- I did edit the shared lilo on the MDK hda6 partition with nano while booted to Gentoo after I compiled 2.6.0-test1, and mounted the shared /boot to copy the bzImage. And I did forget the -w switch when I opened lilo! Well, I'm learning, slowly but surely. Thanks for the info! Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
