On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > Well I finally got RH 5.2 working on my 486 so decided to upgrade to
> > Mandrake 6.0. As I was told the file optimaztion routine must be
> > commented out for an older 486 system and that's OK but I can't get the
> > /dev/hda1/ to mount and remount to make it a rw instead of just a read.
> > Here is what I have done.
> >
> > cd /root/
> > mount /dev/hda1/ -o remount -o -w (get error here that hda1 not mounted
> > or bad option)
>
> Well i dont have mandrake, however a disk has to be mounted read and
> write i rather think the command should be;
>
> mount /dev/hda1/ -o remount -o -rw
> Your issing thr "r" for read.
and take that ending slash off would be a good start too /dev/hda1 is a
device not a directory.
> > cd /etc/rc.d
> > pico rc.sysinit
> > (then edit the file to remove the hdparm and try to write back. Get
> > error that hda1 in read only)
> >
> >
> > So what am I doing wrong on making the drive writeable?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bill
> --
> Regards Richard
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>
>
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