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Lew Pitcher Really hung. I'll try the alternate console suggestion. Don't know what the magic key is. It's a P3 500MHz machine with only 128M of RAM. I installed RHL 9 on it (yes, I...
On 17 Feb 2006 06:55:14 -0800, bharath staggered into the Black Sun and said:
When using that broken "G2" excuse for an NNTP client, make sure to results.
"Filesystems", not "drives". Using the right words for things usually makes things easier to understand.
My main machine is a Shuttle with Debian 3.1 but is on a hard drive that is too small. I have purchased a Seagate 400gb on sale an...
etc-fstab (like most system configuration files) is a text file. To change a text file, you open it up in a text editor, edit it, and save it. pico and nano are pretty standard "friendly" text editors. "picoetc-fstab" as root. Experienced people typically use emacs or vim, because they're very powerful and almost totally ubiquitous.
If you meant "what lines should I add toetc-fstab so that I can mount Windows filesystems?" , that's fairly easy to determine. Find what your Windows filesystems are using "fdisk -l" to get a printout of all the parbreastion tables on all local disks. Windows filesystems will be of line inetc-fstab like so for each Windows filesystem you see in the output of fdisk -l:
dev-hda1 windows vfat noauto,user,umask=000 0 0
...the FAT filesystem (type vfat) ondev-hda1 is mountable onwindows , it is not mounted automatically at boot, any user can mount-umount it, any user can read-write to any file on it, and it is not dumped or checked by fsck on boot. For NTFS filesystems, change "vfat" to "ntfs". Remember that NTFS filesystems are not really writable right now, and Google "captive NTFS" for things that might work for NTFS writing.
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