On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:46, david smethurst wrote: > sorry about the formatting, but fstab is like this: > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults > /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder auto <aside> curious... your CDRW drive is the primary master? </aside> to mount the partitions on your second drive you need to know which ones they are and what they contain. as root, try fdisk -l which will list the partitions it can see on *all* drives in your system. you should see two different drives - one of which is your new disk, on is your old one. to find out which is which try df -h (actually the -h is optional) which will show you what is currently mounted. so if df -h included (for example) /dev/hda2 and fdisk -l showed you partitions on both hda and hdc then hdc is your old disk. you can then do one of two things. firstly you can edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf as suggested by Jeff. secondly you can look at and change the labels on you second disk so they don't clash with your new system... this you may do with e2label: e2label /dev/hdc1 will show you the current label on /dev/hdc1 e2label /dev/hdc1 oldroot will change it to oldroot. as for this out put from rpm... > > > [root@localhost qtparted]# rpm -ivh libuuid*.rpm > > > 1:libuuid warning: user cs does not exist - using > > > root warning: group cs does not exist - using root > > > ########################################### [100%] > > > warning: user cs does not exist - using root > > > warning: group cs does not exist - using root > > > warning: user cs does not exist - using root > > > warning: group cs does not exist - using root this, incidentally, only happens if you are installing a source rpm package. was this package called libuuid-something.src.rpm by any chance? it will have put files into carious directories in /usr/src/redhat HTH Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten.
