Nick Rout wrote:
I still have a few problems:
1. I have copied my /etc/fstab over from Gentoo to Debian and edited it
slightly which resulted in its not being able to boot anymore. When I
tried to restore the old configuration I delted the backup. Could anyone
please post hist /etc/fstab?
very much hand engineered, none of us can guess your partition setup.
You have one in suse and one in gentoo. both will be closer to your
setup than anything anyone here can supply you with!
Mostly yes. What I am after is the 4. to 6. column for the root disk.
For some reason that part is different from Gentoo. When I try to boot
Debian I get the following:
fsck 1.37 (21-March-2005):
Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory.
fsck failed. Please repair manually.
CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and continue system startup.
/dev/console: No such file or directory
Give root-password for maintance
(or press CONTROL-D for normal startup):
After loging in in that mode ls /dev shows only ten files. None of them
starts with hda.
2. After chrooting into Debian or SuSE I cannot connect to the internet
anymore. I have used mount --bind to bind /tmp, /dev, /proc, /home, and
/root from Gentoo to Debian and SuSE. If "Everything is a file" where is
the file which is used to access the net? I can still access local
servers, so I will set up a proxy-server if nothing else works.
perhaps /etc/resolv.conf (needed for name resolution) - try copying it
before chrooting, like in the gentoo setup.
When you say "cannot access the internet" it is very vague - can you
ping by IP address? Can you resolve hostnames?
It was /etc/resolv.conf. After coping that over everything works.
3. I have tried a few servers for updates for Debian but I have found
none which has updates for amd64. Has anyone found any yet?
Happy Hacking,
Robert Himmelmann
Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
-- Lao Tsu
"Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of G�del's Theorem ..."
-- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
