On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:43 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote: > 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? this is because all hdd are sata > </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. /dev/sda is the booting drive now and /dev/sdb is the old drive > you can then do one of two things. > firstly you can edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf as suggested by Jeff. wasnt game to try this in case i errored it > 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/sdb1 oldboot e2label /dev/sdb2 oldroot /dev/sdb3 is the swap and should be ok if left? > 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? this is correct also, trying to solve dependencies again! > it will have put files into carious directories in /usr/src/redhat thanks very much stuart everything should be ok on next boot thanks again david > > HTH > Stuart > -- > Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX > It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten. >
