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[mascarasnake]

Hey Doug -

John M Phillips wrote:
> If you are lucky enough that fsck dumps you into a shell, then
> run the command
> 	mount -o remount,rw /
> 
> You then should be able to edit and save the corrected fstab.
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:
> 

If that doesn't work (which it should since you can see your files), you 
can boot from the install disk 1 and at the prompt type:
	linux rescue root=/dev/hda10
and should be able to edit your fstab

>>During my quest to install YDL 3.0.1 on my iMac, I have managed to mess 
>>up my fstab file.  I was making the changes needed to allow use of my 
>>server drives and managed to copy the wrong fstab file the the /etc 
>>directory.  Now when I try to boot I get an error stating the filesystem 
>>cannot be found on /dev/hda13.  No kidding, that's because it's on 
>>/dev/hda10!  As long as I've been using Linux, I've never had a 
>>situation like this before.  I can input my root password and see the 
>>files, but am unable to copy the correct fstab file back to the location 
>>it needs to be because of the read-only status.  Is there a way to get 
>>the ability to copy the file to it's correct location?
>>
>>Just a message from Doug...

g'luck

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