Mandriva problems (was: Linux Distro Chooser)

[Donn]

On 1/6/06, Eric Shubes <plug at shubes.net> wrote:
>
> Josef Lowder wrote:
>
> >
> > #3. I can't access my other partitions from the Mandriva
> >       boot.  I also have Mepis and Xandros installed and
> >       with either of them or with the Knoppix LiveCD, I can
> >       access all the other partitions on my system, but
> >       with this new Mandriva 2006 installation, none of the
> >       other partitions show up in /mnt and I can't find any
> >       way to mount them.
> >
> I'm not familiar with Mandriva, so I can't be of much help. I'm
> wondering, though, if maybe the other partitions are being mounted
> somewhere else or not at all (I recall Fedora moving removable media
> mounts (floppy, cdrom) from /mnt to /media at some point). Your
> /etc/fstab file should tell you what it's doing, and allow you to
> specify everything to do with mounts.
> $ man mount
> $ man fstab
>
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Have you gone into 'Configure My Computer' (you need to enter the root
password) and looked at (I think) Hardware, Partitions? This should show you
all the partitions that were seen on install, regardless if they are mounted
or not. If they are not mounted, it is a simple task to mount them by either
using this tool or adding them manually to /etc/fstab.

--
Donn
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illness."
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