sreangsu acharyya on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 rearranged electrons thusly:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > Instead of trying out partition numbers randomly, how about doing
> > [mallet@mjollnir] ~$ df
> but when one is booting from the cd, hard disk will mount on the /tmp
> mount point, wont it? In that case it wouldnt be so useful. Do correct me
> if i am wrong
You are of course right - but the partition numbers will at least be found ...
you'll often get /dev/hda1, /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda5 with no hda2 or hda4 ...
and surely you'll know which one you mounted as root, as it is a fresh install.
-s
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