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Re: Redhat 4.0 trouble....



     
        Thanks for all the input, it does seem like what Ira is saying is the 
case. What's the best way to change the mount point? And since this is my "user"
partition, primary #2 is the a good standard mane for this mount?

Thanks, David

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Subject: Re: Redhat 4.0 trouble....
Author:  owner-linux-il (owner-linux-il@linux.org.il) at unix,mime
Date:    12/12/96 2:49


On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
     
> > >      >      /dev/hda1  /       ext2    defaults        11
> > >      >      /dev/hda2  /dev/hda2       ext2    defaults        12 > 
> >                          ^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Apparently, you are trying to mount /dev/hda2 _ON_ /dev/hda2, which is 
> > incorrect.
> 
> This fstab entry indeed isn't correct.  But I suspect this error is 
> caused
> because /dev/hda2 is a directory instead of being a block device inode. 
> What does "ls -l /dev/hda2" give?  Try running "/dev/MAKEDEV hda" (from 
> /dev) if /dev/hda2 looks strange (e.g. differs from /dev/hda1 in more
> fields than just the minor device number).
     
of course it's not a blockdev anymore! RedHat's installation as very 
simplistic in this... he typed in the wrong mount point, and it literely 
made the directory, and mounted the volume. later in the installation the 
devices' RPM tryed to install itself but probably failed at that 
file/directory (maybe other devices were not created subsequently) 
     
     
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