On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > 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 > > Rosmary, > 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.
I'm okay about messing around if you think I can follow the instructions sufficiently. I hate to deprive anyone of a challenge :-) > > 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...) Yes "sendmail" But I am still able to use email. > > 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 I haven't done any of this yet. Do I do it if I'm going to do the "messing around"? The other thing that has happened is that I can no longer access packages on CDROM. It whirrs away and stops when I press enter (in Konsole doing urpmi). Rosemary
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