Thanks Chris and Mark. When you do a "etc-update system" what do you usually choose? This is a very confusing area for me and this is where I know that I messed up. I don't really understand what I need to do here even after reading stuff on the Forum the choices still don't make sense. You have 3 choices. -1 -3 and -5. -5 I thought was the same thing as -3 except when you do -5 it just doesn't prompt for each individual file to be written too...? I used to choose -3 all the time. What is the difference between -3 and -5?
I want to make sure that I do this correctly while I still have root priveliges in the shell that I currently have open. So please correct if I'm wrong. 1> Modify /etc/fstab.....I thought that I knew what to do here but I see two lines that I don't remember. I reconfiged the top portion to reflect my system setup as I did last time.. My question is what about the "proc" and "tmpfs" settings. Don't remember seeing these last time and never did anything to "proc" or "tmpfs" settings last time. From what they look like now, do I need to do anythig to those settings? Cut and Paste of /etc/fstab # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 2> As for the /etc/passwd file I'm not to sure what I need to do. In the shell that still has me as root I did "passwd" and reset the root passwd. I see that I still have the user that I created and I was able to change the passwd for that user but when I open up another shell and try an "su" it still doesn't take the root passwd.. ??? 3> Mark you said to move everything out to the /boot directory and then "mount /boot" and /boot/grub should be thier and then I can modify grub.conf or create it? Do I need to run "genkernel" again, or can I just reboot and be all right? Right now I can't "mount /boot" becuase I think that I have to get /etc/fstab fixed first and modified correctly because when I try to "mount /boot" I get the following: mount: special device /dev/BOOT does not exist. --- Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2003.09.15 22:29, Joshua Banks wrote: > > I'm assuming that I can just reconfig /etc/fstab and manually create > > a > > grub directory and > > grub.conf file in that directory? > > Recreate fstab and mount your /boot partition. > > > Oh,,, when I try and open another shell window and "su" my password > > keeps on being rejected as > > well.... > > > > What the hell did I do??? > > It looks like you overwrote all of your protected configuration files > without checking the changes first, so your /etc/passwd was also reset > to defaults. This file contains a user list, etc. Theres probably more > files that were overwritten. Never use -5 with etc-update. > > -- > > Chris I > > The longer the title, the less important the job. > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
