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| Thread ID: 31964 | 2003-04-05 11:57:00 | Is this realistic, or am i pushing the preverbial uphill with a soft toothpick? | Clueless (181) | Press F1 |
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| 133638 | 2003-04-06 04:38:00 | Perhaps I abbreviated too much. <foreigndisk> is a shorthand which means "whatever the disk is called" ... in the mount command that can be the /dev/hdXx hardware identification or the mountpoint name. The hardware name depends on the interface it is connected to. That gives you "/dev/hdX". If there is only one partition, the x is 1. You would need to add fstab entries for multi partitions or use the full mount command. so if the fstab includes the line : "/dev/hdc1 /mnt/foreign auto ro,noauto 0 0" (if the drive was plugged to the second IDE) and you have a directory called /mnt/foreign, you can type "mount /deb/hdc1" or "mount /mnt/foreign" and the OS will check the drive, and (if it has a fs for that type) it will mount that disk. If there isn't a fs for that disk, it will complain that it hasn't got the appropriate fs available. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 133639 | 2003-04-06 08:07:00 | You could check out Mandrake 9.0 or perhaps 9.1 I'm pretty sure that I managed to mount an NTFS disk with 9.0 and even managed to muck around with some of the files. I was going to check out whether this "memory" of my was correct, but sadly the APC disk has died. Gave my poor CD drive an extremely hard time :) You could possibly see whether your local library has acopy of the November issue of APC and check it out, but I have not run Mandrake on a Pentium 166. I know SuSE 8.0 will run on a P1/166 with 128Mb of RAM because I happen to have that set-up :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 133640 | 2003-04-07 02:32:00 | oops i'm confused here.. SuSE8 in its current form doesn't seem to support NTFS. When i mounted the disk using yast2, there were options for most file systems i have heard of and "7", which is what it chose. This seems enough to see how full the disk is, and very little else. All i need to do is be able to read it, and copy what i want before removing and formatting it. I've searched around and it seems that newer versions of the kernel do support atleast NTFS, which leads to the questions: How do i check my kernel version, and how do i update it, and with what? -----I thought i'd get it happening on my working machine before i set up a new one. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 133641 | 2003-04-07 03:14:00 | To check your kernel version you can look at your start-up boot log file . Probably easiest if you do this via Yast . The other place is usr/src/ . You are most likely running 2 . 4 . 18 4GB Kernel updates are possible, but can also lead to problems . You need to download the latest kernel versions and then install them . Once this is accomplished you need to modify lilo so it will boot from the new kernel and rename the old kernel so you have a fall back if the new one doesn't work :) Read this one ( . suse . de/en/sdb/html/maddin_kernel_config . html" target="_blank">sdb . suse . de) and then this ( . suse . de/en/sdb/html/81_update_kernel . html" target="_blank">sdb . suse . de) to update to 8 . 1 which is 2 . 4 . 19 With NTFS there is a site at sourceforge (http://linux-ntfs . sourceforge . net) that gives some details about what they are doing, although it sounds like you have been there already . |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 133642 | 2003-04-08 00:29:00 | Well so much for Sam....... The kernel is updated, and Sam now wont boot into Linux or "failsafe" , indeed the only thing Sam can now do is "memory check" itself. I did have the foresight to make a renamed copy or the original kernel, which is living in what is or was /boot , but have no idea how to talk lilo into booting from the backup.. :( :( .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 133643 | 2003-04-08 00:37:00 | You should just be able to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file as root, and specify the location of the backed up kernel file? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 133644 | 2003-04-08 00:41:00 | How do i edit the etc/lilo.conf file when Sam wont actually boot up in the first place? | Clueless (181) | ||
| 133645 | 2003-04-08 01:19:00 | Have you got a Knoppix CD handy? Ive done that before.. Only it was to edit the XFree86 config file :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 133646 | 2003-04-08 03:25:00 | Use your rescue floppy. You did make one, didn't you? Did you run lilo to update the boot sector when you change the kernel? That is essential. I would have used the NTFS only as an installable module, not compiled it into the kernel. If you didn't make a rescue floppy, you should have a repair mode in your original installation CD. Is your new kernel expecting a NTFS disk as the Linux boot device, rather than IDE? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 133647 | 2003-04-08 03:45:00 | The NTFS rpm does NOT need to touch the kernel, as Im guessing you've figured out. Can it boot from NTFS though, if its read-only? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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