On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 07:16:09AM -0500, Biju Chacko wrote:
> ran fdisk from it to set the bootable flag of /boot. I believe this is
> possible with RH too. CTRL-ALT-F6 I think.
Indeed. As also in Mandrake - while installing Mandrake recently
on a friend's machine I realised we'd forgotten to note down the
existing partition structure. (He had already had an older
version of some Linux on it). Hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get into the
text mode consoles, start exploring until you find one with a
prompt (in this case it was #2) mkdir a temp mount point, do fdisk
-l on /dev/hda, guess what his "/" was, mount it, read etc/fstab,
umount it! Then continue with the install.
<advocacy>
What other OS lets you muck around mounting and unmounting stuff
in the middle of an install!
</advocacy>
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