$author = "Adam F. Bogacki" ;
> 
> Would 's99gdm > norun99gdm' work ?

try 'mv S99gdm norun99gdm'


> And what then ?

restart your machine and see if your problem goes away. if it does you have
a problem with gdm. if not, check what else is starting up because you
haven't found the culprit yet...


> When I tried to mount 'hde' I received the following
> 
> Eora:/etc# mount /mnt/hde
> mount: can't find /mnt/hde in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

is that drive a single large partition? more then likely it would be
partitioned and you should be trying to mount /dev/hde? (where ? is some
number) onto your filesystem somewhere...


> trying to mount it in /etc/fstab I received the message that 'fstab' was not
> a directory.

/etc/fstab is a file that describes devices to be mounted, either at boot,
automatically or manually...

your mount command should like this

mount -t FILESYSTEMTYPE /dev/hde? /path/to/mount/point

read 'man mount' for all the parameters...


> Lastly, this may not be a purely Debian problem as I tried a test boot from
> a RH 7.1 disk
> onto 'hde' and had the same result: it only recognised hda and hdb, asking
> me where on the
> (already installed) hdb drive I wished to put my swap partition.

ummm... are you suer your second drive is hde? it sounds like you have two
drives (hda and hdb) both of which are partitioned to some degree...

marty

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