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Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.



On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:28:02PM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote:
> 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.

Your problem is that you made the 3rd partition a filesystem instead of
leaving as "Whole Disk", like fdisk tries to do. RH's fdisk is the same
as ours. The problem is user error :)

Ben

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