Hi David, Thanks for that, it makes more sense now. I'll go and grab the files you suggest. I have a RH business card shaped rescue disk, tried to use it once and it trashed the drive (my luck) :-)
I'll let you know how it goes, Cheers again, Mike RE: Re: [scottish] RH7.2, Sendmail and KDE. On Thursday 22 November 2001 23:56, you wrote: > Hi mike, > > You can't unmount the root partition of the booted system because its > pretty critical to the health of your system. Instead what i would > suggest is to boot a rescue floppy and run fsck from your booted disk. > Note. Don't use a boot floppy which mounts your root partition as its > root as it will defeat the purpose. > > May i suggest you download the following two files > http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06 >-14/images-1.44/rescue.bin > http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06 >-14/images-1.44/root.bin which will boot a completely standalone environment > and unless i'm mistaken the root image has fsck on it. > > You could also use any other rescue disk as long as it doesnt mount > root. Linuxcare do an excellent rescue cd which fits on a bootable > business card cd thingy. > > I hope that helps > > David -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
