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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