Re: emergency shutdown?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:04:58PM +0000, Simon R Tod wrote:
| Having used the rescue and then the root floopy I can get to the
| installation menu. The partition list is given as
|
| Device Mounted on Type
|
| /dev/hda1 Not mounted Linux native
| 2 Not in use Linux swap
| 3 Not available HPFS / NTFS
| 4 Not mounted Linux native
|
| Why the Linux swap is not in use, I don't know. hda3 is Window. Running
| 'e2fsck /dev/hda1' from the shell prompt I get the message
None of those devices are currently in use because you have booted the
installer. The installer uses a RAMDISK to store / and doesn't use
more memory than is physically present. It can't, because it is the
installer and thus by definitiion isn't an installed system.
HTH,
-D
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