On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:40:20 +1200 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Roger, I will. The Knoppix CD is something that I'd like to play > with, just as an aside. > > Nick, thanks, yes, I gave the Mandrake CD a go last night, no "lip > reading" required. Please understand that I work on Win2K, and my Linux > play-time is restricted to very rare free hours at home. sorry i just see people going off at awful tangents. I don't know why anyone thought your file system was corrupt. How about just deleting the offending file? >I succeeded in > getting through to a console. fsck was only available, as far as I could > tell, in the form fsck.ext2. I gave this a go, but didn't have the man > page available on the rescue console, so fell at the first hurdle. I'll > print out the man page today, and have another crack at it tonight, or > whenever I next get some spare time. I guess it won't hurt to fsck anyway. what filesystem are you running? > > Christopher. There isn't a lot to say to that. I had indeed read the man > page. I hadn't had a chance to give it a go until last night. Please > remember how little beginners actually know, and that we are very easily > discouraged. > > Paul, thanks for the reminder about Rute, I haven't had a chance to read > it on this subject yet. I certainly intend to. > > Matthew, I gave ls -lb a go, with the following result: > > $ ls -lb > total 32 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 15 20:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \@ > [snip] > > I don't know whether that means anything to you. > > Enough, now. > > Thanks for your help, all. > > Roger Searle wrote: > > > Hi Douglas, I have a recent copy of Knoppix you can have. Contact me > > off list and we can arrange delivery/collection. > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
