This one time, at band camp, Joris Huizer said: > 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.. What error messages are you seeing? That would help quite a bit. Well, without knowing more of your situation, I'm going to make some guesses about it. It sounds like you are installing Debian, and that you are working with a hard drive that used to contain a Redhat installation. During the Debian install, there is an option to partition the disk and mount the partitions at various points. Choose to mount /dev/hdb5 at /home (mount a previously initialized linux partition is the option, IIRC) and then proceed with normal initialization for the rest. > 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 If it's USB like mine, modprobe usb_storage (IIRC) and then it should be accessable as a SCSI disk, at /dev/sda4, I think - try mounting that once the modules are loaded (you'll see recognition of the device in syslog), and then put an entry in fstab to allow mounting - you can copy the floppy entry (just remember to change the device name and mount point). > Please help ! Hope that does. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to | | steve@lobefin.net | do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | hold the bits and 32 to push the | | | register. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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