Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.
because i am lazy and have to manually type all that out, i am just going to
cut to the chase.....
# mount reveals that / failed on mount, and was subsequently remounted -ro
because of errors.
told you i was new ;)
anyhow, i have tried to use other sdd's previously and that would lead me to
believe that it is not hardware but configuration related. it would appear
that this is related to fdisk. i used the s option and made it whole drive.
i then partitioned the sdb as sdb1 sdb2 sdb3, with ext2 partitions. they
mount fine.
a peer of mine (very MCSE but working to change) suggested that i fdisk with
a different disty (like redhat) then put debian on the existing partitions
from that fdisk. the reason he said this is from his experience(small) of
having debian fdisk bork on sparc. another peer (heavy *nix experience)
said just put redhat on it and be done, i refrained from smacking him.
anyhow, my question is: how should i fdisk this puppy to get me through
this problem? i have read the FM and have done things as near to "by the
book" as i can, which is why i am bothering you fine people.
thanks,
g
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Collins" <bcollins@debian.org>
To: "Greg Teigue" <greg@phlo.net>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:36:12PM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote:
> > greets,
> > just got an old sparc2 and decided to put debian on it.
> > after being schooled in the art of openboot and whole disk partitions i
got it to install and can get it to boot through openboot. however, i try
to edit any scripts with vi and it wont let me save the changes. tells me
to use :q! instead. tried :w!, i tried making scripts in another directory
from /etc/ but did not help. could create file, but not edit it. tried
chmod 777, but that failed as well. tried reinstalling with different
drives with out any difference in results. strange behavior to say the
least. i posted to my peers to no avail and dug through the archives and
RFM. rather perplexed, any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > thanks!
>
> What boot disks did you use? It's very odd that you can create files,
> but not modify them. Sure you are working as root? Can you send the
> output to these commands:
>
> # ls -la /
>
> and
>
> # mount
>
>
>
> Ben
>
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