"formatting" / mounting file systems
Hi everybody,
I've got yet another serious problem I found today:
I've been using redhat 8.0 before installing debian
woody. In redhat 8.0 I had the following partitions
for linux:
/dev/hdb1 is root "/"
/dev/hdb2 is swap
/dev/hdb3 is /boot
[ /dev/hdb4 is extended part.]
/dev/hdb5 is /home
/dev/hdb6 is /usr
I kind of thought the debian system would use those as
I replaced the old root partition with the new root
system. I must say that was probably a silly idea (I'm
not exactly used to managing system stuff)
However, because none of the filesystems are
"formatted" or, so-called "initialised", they contain
redhat 8.0 stuff and can't just be mounted without any
actions to make sure everything will go fine. I want
to have /dev/hdb5 available especially as it contains
all my files (though I've got a backup)
I found I can edit on /etc/fstab but when I do it
messes a lot..
One more related question: I've got a file to read
"zip-discs" (discs which work kind of like floppies
but can contain either 100 MB or 250 MB). On redhat
8.0 I could mount them just like floppies (or cdroms)
but on debian it isn't automatically detected
Please help !
Thanks in advance
regards,
Joris
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