Rosmary,On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Hello
I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well.
My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access.
Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread.
Thanks Rosemary
Yes, it will maintain the Windows boot entry. The install should also create a mount point so that you can access your Windows data. Because you have a seperate /home partition, it will also retain your personal data if you want it to. Just do not re-format the home partition. You can also have it save your extra data partition.
Mikkel
Thanks. I'm vacillating now: partly because of your other post, but also because I see 10.2 will be available early next month (according to the dealer I buy my CDs from). I'm thinking perhaps I'll wait.
Rosemary
If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that will boot, and that you can work with, withoug getting everything working. Basicly, you can run a couple of commands, and the system will be back to booting.
chkconfig alsa off chkconfig mail off
These two will turn off the two services that were stopping the boot, so you do not need to use the "I" option. (I believe you said mail was the name of the second one giving you problems...)
You may also want to run:
mkdir /data echo /dev/hda6 /data ext3 defaults 1 2 >> /etc/fstab
Please note that this is >> /etc/fstab and not > /etc/fstab. Or you could open /etc/fstab in the editor of your choise and add:
/dev/hda6 /data ext3 defaults 1 2
at the end of the file.
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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