On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:53 +0000, Rohit Sharma wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >You can't just "mount the puppy" either (and let mount do the work) > > > > > Are you sure? > While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted > the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation linuxrc as > to what formatting was provided.
are _you_ sure? (that you also specified -o ?) as I said, you _can_ use "mount /what /where", but you can't say "mount -o opts /what /where", you have to say "mount -t type -o opts /what /where"... and if you don't know -t type, (and if you are a script) then what? Use disktype!! > it mounted reiserfs, vfat and xfs every time. > that may be one workaround. Boot your comp with installation disk, let > the media detect what you have on your comp, do a file on it or mount > it. xfs, ext2/3 and reiserfs tell you at the time of mounting if they > are there. not very efficient... -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> To be or not to be, that is the bottom line. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
