[plug] mounting query

[Bret Busby]

The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
> > After having replaced RH 5.2 on my computer, with RH 6.2, and, not
> > having backed up /etc/fstab, I have tried to get my data partition
> > (FAT16) mounted.
> The Redhat upgrade ate your fstab? As tricky as people tell me the Debian
> install is, you only have to do it once.

It was done as a clean install; from what we understand, an upgrade can
only be done on the second digit, and not on the first ( RH 6.0->6.2 OK;
RH 5.2->6.2 not OK).

> 
> > My /etc/fstab file, after modifying, now reads:
> > /dev/hda6    /            ext2     defaults        1 1
> > /dev/hda5    /mnt/data    msdos    defaults        0 0
> 
> I doubt this is the problem but the fstab manpage states:
>  "The  sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro
>   gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are
>   done at reboot time.  The root filesystem should be speci
>   fied with a fs_passno of 1, and other  filesystems  should
>   have a fs_passno of 2."
> 
> > On booting, in the output from the bootup, is the error message:
> > Mounting other file systems mount: mount point /mnt/data does not exist
> > <FAIL>
> > Can someone please tell me what is wrong, and, how to correct it?
> At a guess, mount point /mnt/data does not exist and you can correct it by
> creating it. (mkdir /mnt/data)
> 
> -Greg

It was the mkdir /mnt/data. I fixed that, after Kim's message.

Thanks, people.

However; after working on it for a few hours, Netscape for Linux (tried
4.72 and 4.75) can't find the Inbox file to download email, even when
the browse facility is used, and, is used to get Netscape to point at
the nsmail directory.

Has anyone managed to get Netscape messenger to work with RH 6.2? To
have to take hours, to try to get it working, is ridiculous.

The permissions of the files on the data partition have been changed, in
the process of trying to get it to work, and fstab modified, with uid
and gid set for the data partition, to no avail, and, all kinds of
things tried, but, Netscape cannot see the file, to which it points.

It seems that the only way that Netscape can be used, is on Windows, at
present (after having been able to kind of use Netscape 4.08 on RH 5.2).
And, no, I am not trolling; it just seems ridiculously difficult to get
Netscape working, on RH6.2.

-- 

Bret Busby

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