On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark Hayenga wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I recently installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 from a CD a friend burned for
> me on an Intel P120 with a Maxtor 1.5gb hard drive. I am running a
> dual boot system with Win98 on my primary HD and Linux on the other
> one (the 1.5 gb maxtor).
Just to clarify, you have two hard drives, and you are installing linux on
the second one. Yes?
> I am mounting the windows drive (hda1) as
> /windows/ in linux.
Where is linux installed? hdb?
> I use LILO to choose which I want to boot in to.
> The problem is that upon booting into linux a day or so after
> installation, I get the message "File system improperly unmounted,
> check forced.."
Errm. Very odd. My guess is that your /etc/fstab is incorrect in some
way, and tht your initscripts are trying to fsck a partition that does not
have an ext2 filesystem on it.
(fsck is kindof like scandisk for ext2)
Could you post a copy of /etc/fstab please?
Did you install linux in a single partition, or is it in several? Do you
have a swap partition somewhere?
> I really want to love linux, and I've heard the ext2 system
> is more finicky than fat32 about being improperly shutdown, but I
Not nec. Linux is more fussy about being shut down than windows, because
it caches fs stuff more.
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Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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