On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 17:37, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> - snip -
> 
> >>Booting up Gentoo box with CD1 but I was not allowed to mount without 
> >>knowing the FS
> >>
> >>fdisk -l
> >>only showing 'linux'
> >>
> >>cfdisk /dev/hda3
> >>showing
> >>FATAL ERROR: can't open disk drive
> >>press any key to exit
> >>
> >>IIRC at time of installation I selected 'reiserfs'
> >>
> >>Kindly advise how to find it out.  TIA
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You need `cfdisk /dev/hda`  it will list all partitions on the disk and the fs type.
> >  
> >
> I tried both before
> 
> `cfdisk /dev/hda`
> and
> `cfdisk /dev/hda3`
> same warning;
> FATAL ERROR: can't open disk drive
> press any key to exit
> 
> 

Were you root when doing this?

> >Also, your clock is very much in the future and throwing off mail sorting, is there 
> >anything you can do about that?
> >  
> >
> Sorry I don't follow.  Are you talking the clock of this PC in answering
> postings?  I am sending and replying emails from a Debian box.  I just
> check the clock and reset the hour and minute.  It is synchronized by 'ntp'
> 
> B.R.
> Stephen
> 

You messages appear to be dated 24 hours in the future, it shows as
17:37 11-Feb-2004?

-- 
Tom Wesley

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