On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:25, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > hi bob,
Hi Pete. > > out of curiosity -- why did you reinstall? My hard drive went bad. In fact you were the one who said I needed a new hard drive. So I installed Linux on the new hard drive. Maybe "reinstall" was not the right word. > > and when you say "windows isn't being mounted", do you mean at boot? > what happens when you type "mount /mnt/windows"? Yes, it wasn't being mounted at boot. I could mount Windows with the mount command. > it depends. did you plug the new hard drive in IDE 4 slot A or slot B? > if you put it in slot B, the drive spins at a faster rate and can > prematurely burn out the motor. a lot of people who complained about > IBM deskstars crapping out early were guilty of using slot B. since > then, IBM has placed slot AB converters, so for modern deskstars, it > doesn't matter. if you own one of these things and it says "CHS" > somewhere on the drive itself, you have an older model. On this computer it's IDE 1 (I believe.) And it was an IBM deskstar that burned out. I checked the Vox-tech archives and learned that people were having problems with the IBM deskstar. At Fry's there's an Hitachi Deskstar. But I bought a Maxtor at CompUSA after getting some information from Fry's employees that even I could figure out was bogus. > > > i can't see why unless you do something like mounting /usr/local under > /usr, you'd want to mount /usr first. in your case, you prolly just > want to mount / before anything else (as we all do). I think man fstab says something about mounting order and fscking order. > so it looks good > to me. Thanks. > > bob, that field of fstab (field 4) is essentially options for mount. so > you can figure out what the options mean by doing "man mount". Yeah I looked at that a little, which is why I had a feeling that "defaults" would not let me write to the Windows partition. But I tried it anyway. > > > > > Should I copy the Mandrake entry into my SuSE system? > > no. you should do what works. i know that sounds like a cop-out > answer, but it's the absolute truth. Thanks for the input. Stay warm back there. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
