Salvage YDL3 install?

[Ron Smith]

Well, you're off to a good start because you know what partitions you 
need to deal with. =)

If you can get the machine to boot into something that can mount the 
partition with linux installed you can re-create the file (I don't know 
if the recovery or install CD would help with this or if OS X can mount 
an ext3 partition or not).

Using my /etc/fstab as an example the file format/contents is:


[ron@dogbook ron]$ more /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6               /                       ext3    defaults     1 1

none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620 	0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0

none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0

/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

[ron@dogbook ron]$

That is an unmodified /etc/fstab from a new YDL3.0 install.

Hope that helps,

-Ron


Bmhome1@aol.com wrote:
> I managed to bork my YDL3 install by accidentally deleting my /etc/fstab file 
> while editing it.  On startup I get "Warning: couldn't open /etc/fstab: No 
> such file or directory."  Reinstalling isn't an issue but would like the 
> learning experience  if recreating the /etc/fstab file is possible either 
> manually or via install rescue with CD.  My partitions are hda16 for ext3 and 
> hda15 for swap.  Any guidance gratefully appreciated.  I'm not afraid to lose 
> current install trying, there's nothing that can't be reinstalled.
> 
> Thanks!
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